Somewhat vs. Something — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Somewhat and Something
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Somewhat
To some extent or degree; rather.
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Something
A remarkable or important thing or person
He thinks he is something in that uniform.
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Somewhat
To a limited extent or degree; not completely.
The crowd was somewhat larger than expected, perhaps due to the good weather.
The decision to shave or not is a somewhat personal
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Something
One who falls into a specified age range. Often used in combination
Fortysomethings who attended their class reunion.
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Somewhat
Very.
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Something
Of, relating to, or being a member of a specified age range. Often used in combination
"the lives and loves of hip, twentysomething city dwellers" (Joseph P. Kahn).
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Somewhat
(archaic) Something.
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Something
A little; somewhat
She looks something like her mother.
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Somewhat
More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
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Something
(Informal) To an extreme degree
He drinks something fierce.
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Somewhat
A person or thing of importance; a somebody.
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Something
An uncertain or unspecified thing; one thing.
I must have forgotten to pack something, but I can't think what.
I have something for you in my bag.
I have a feeling something good is going to happen today.
The answer to four down is P something T something Y.
She looked thirty-something. (anything from thirty-one to thirty-nine years old)
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Somewhat
More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste.
Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
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Something
A quality to a moderate degree.
The performance was something of a disappointment.
That child is something of a genius.
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Somewhat
A person or thing of importance; a somebody.
Here come those that worship me.They think that I am somewhat.
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Something
A talent or quality that is difficult to specify.
She has a certain something.
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Somewhat
In some degree or measure; a little.
His giantship is gone, somewhat crestfallen.
Somewhat back from the village street.
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Something
Somebody who or something that is superlative or notable in some way.
He's really something! I've never heard such a great voice.
She's quite something. I can't believe she would do such a mean thing.
Some marmosets are less than six inches tall. —Well, isn't that something?
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Somewhat
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
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Something
Having a characteristic that the speaker cannot specify.
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Somewhat
To a moderately sufficient extent or degree;
The shoes are priced reasonably
He is fairly clever with computers
They lived comfortably within reason
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Something
(degree) Somewhat; to a degree.
The baby looks something like his father.
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Something
Used to adverbialise a following adjective
I miss them something terrible. (I miss them terribly)
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Something
Applied to an action whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g. from words of a song.
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Something
An object whose nature is yet to be defined.
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Something
An object whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g., from words of a song. Also used to refer to an object earlier indefinitely referred to as 'something' (pronoun sense).
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Something
Anything unknown, undetermined, or not specifically designated; a certain indefinite thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing.
There is something in the wind.
The whole world has something to do, something to talk of, something to wish for, and something to be employed about.
Something attemped, something done,Has earned a night's repose.
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Something
A part; a portion, more or less; an indefinite quantity or degree; a little.
Something yet of doubt remains.
Something of it arises from our infant state.
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Something
A person or thing importance.
If a man thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
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Something
In some degree; somewhat; to some extent; at some distance.
I something fear my father's wrath.
We have something fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly.
My sense of touch is something coarse.
It must be done to-night,And something from the palace.
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Something
A thing of some kind;
Is there something you want?
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