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Somewhat vs. Something — What's the Difference?

Somewhat vs. Something — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Somewhat and Something

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Somewhat

To some extent or degree; rather.

Something

A remarkable or important thing or person
He thinks he is something in that uniform.

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

Something

One who falls into a specified age range. Often used in combination
Fortysomethings who attended their class reunion.

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).

Somewhat

(archaic) Something.

Something

A little; somewhat
She looks something like her mother.

Somewhat

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

Something

(Informal) To an extreme degree
He drinks something fierce.

Somewhat

A person or thing of importance; a somebody.

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)

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.

Something

A quality to a moderate degree.
The performance was something of a disappointment.
That child is something of a genius.

Somewhat

A person or thing of importance; a somebody.
Here come those that worship me.They think that I am somewhat.

Something

A talent or quality that is difficult to specify.
She has a certain something.

Somewhat

In some degree or measure; a little.
His giantship is gone, somewhat crestfallen.
Somewhat back from the village street.

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?

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

Something

Having a characteristic that the speaker cannot specify.

Somewhat

To a moderately sufficient extent or degree;
The shoes are priced reasonably
He is fairly clever with computers
They lived comfortably within reason

Something

(degree) Somewhat; to a degree.
The baby looks something like his father.

Something

Used to adverbialise a following adjective
I miss them something terrible. (I miss them terribly)

Something

Applied to an action whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g. from words of a song.

Something

An object whose nature is yet to be defined.

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).

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.

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.

Something

A person or thing importance.
If a man thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

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.

Something

A thing of some kind;
Is there something you want?

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