somewhat

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   to a small degree or extent

   Their arguments were somewhat self-contradictory.

2. 2
   adv

   To a limited extent or degree; not completely.

   The crowd was somewhat larger than expected, perhaps due to the good weather.

3. 3
   adv

   Very.

   Two of the coaches are still on the site of the line; one, a first class observation coach carrying the S.R. number 6991, is at Snapper Halt, where it still stands, in fair condition but somewhat weatherbeaten […]

4. 4
   pron

   Something.

   Proceeding to the midst he stil did stand, As if in minde he somewhat had to say […]

5. 5
   noun

   A certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.

   Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.

6. 6
   noun

   A person or thing of importance; a somebody.

   c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Troilus and Cressida Pity that the researchful notary has not either told us in what century, and of what history, he was a writer, or been simply content to depose, that Lollius, if a writer of that name existed at all, was a somewhat somewhere.

7. 7
   adv

   to a moderately sufficient extent or degree

Etymology

From some + what.