i Register
In some senses, somewhat is marked as archaic, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.
adv
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 one.
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 […]
pron
Something.
Proceeding to the midst he stil did stand, As if in minde he somewhat had to say […]
a. 1716, Robert Trail, sermon on the Lord's Prayer But this text and theme I am upon, relates to somewhat far higher and greater, than all the beholdings of his glory that ever any saint on earth received.
noun
More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
its taste, which is plainly acid, and somewhat rough
Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
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.
Am I to blame for this, / That here come those that worship me? Ha! ha! / They think that I am somewhat. What am I?