Definition of somewhat

"somewhat" in the adverb sense

1. slightly, somewhat, more or less

to a small degree or extent

"his arguments were somewhat self-contradictory"

"the children argued because one slice of cake was slightly larger than the other"

2. reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly, somewhat, fairly, middling, passably

to certain extent or degree

"pretty big"

"pretty bad"

"jolly decent of him"

"the shoes are priced reasonably"

"he is fairly clever with computers"

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Quotations for somewhat

Angling is somewhat like poetry; men are to be born so. [ Izaak Walton ]

My hands are clean, but my heart has somewhat of impurity. [ Euripides ]

'Twas a hand
White, delicate, dimpled, warm, languid, and bland
The hand of a woman is often, in youth.
Somewhat rough, somewhat red, somewhat graceless, in truth;
Does its beauty refine, as its pulses grow calm,
Or as sorrow has crossed the life line in the palm? [ Lord Lytton ]

Imagination is too often accompanied with a somewhat irregular logic. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

If I die tomorrow, my life will be somewhat the sweeter for knowledge. [ Owen Feltham ]

To leave this keen encounter of our wits, and fall somewhat into a slower method. [ William Shakespeare ]

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much. [ Landor ]

A real friend is somewhat like a ghost or apparition; much talked of, but rarely seen. [ C. Buck ]

Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before it was neither rhyme nor reason. [ Sir Thos. More ]

It is a law of the gods which is never broken, to sell somewhat dearly the great benefits which they confer on us. [ Corneille ]

Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them. [ Colton ]

There be some that think their wits have been asleep, except they dart out somewhat that is piquant, and to the quick; that is a vein which would be bridled. [ Bacon ]

Generosity is catching: and if so many escape it, it is somewhat for the same reason that countrymen escape the smallpox - because they meet with no one to give it to them. [ Lord Greville ]

What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain; it is an indefiniteness in the time which holds a certain relation to the infinite, and what is called eternity. [ La Bruyere ]

Proverbs are somewhat analogous to those medical formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready made up in the chemists' shops, and which often save the framing of a distinct prescription. [ Whately ]

Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time. [ Bacon ]

We are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleep; and the slumber of the body seems to be but the waking of the soul. It is the ligation of sense, but the liberty of reason; and our waking conceptions do not match the fancies of our sleeps. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

Nature gives you the impression as if there were nothing contradictory in the world; and yet, when you return back to the dwelling-place of man, be it lofty or low, wide or narrow, there is ever somewhat to contend with, to battle with, to smooth and put to rights. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Some are so close and reserved that they will not show their wares but by a dark light, and seem always to keep back somewhat; and when they know within themselves they speak of that which they do not well know, would nevertheless seem to others to know of that which they may not well speak. [ Bacon ]

Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out, and gives it more transparent forms. It is here that art, when it knows well its power and resources, engages in a struggle with nature in which it may have the advantage. [ Victor Cousin ]

Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary. [ Colton ]

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them, - for every one sees how we dress, but none see how we live, except we choose to let them. But the truly great are, by universal suffrage, exempted from these trammels, and may live or dress as they please. [ Colton ]

somewhat in Scrabble®

The word somewhat is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 16

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters somewhat:

SOMEWHAT
(180)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word somewhat

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somewhat in Words With Friends™

The word somewhat is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 16

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters somewhat:

SOMEWHAT
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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word somewhat

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Words containing the sequence somewhat

Words that start with somewhat (2 words)

Words with somewhat in them (1 word)

Words that end with somewhat (1 word)

Word Growth involving somewhat

Shorter words in somewhat

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me some

so som some

at hat what

ha hat what

Longer words containing somewhat

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