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Somewhat vs Sometime - What's the difference?

somewhat | sometime |

As adverbs the difference between somewhat and sometime

is that somewhat is to a limited extent or degree while sometime is at an unstated or indefinite time in the future.

As a pronoun somewhat

is something.

As a noun somewhat

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

As an adjective sometime is

former, erstwhile; at some previous time.

somewhat

English

Alternative forms

* (qualifier) summat (and variants listed there)

Adverb

(-)
  • To a limited extent or degree.
  • *
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    See also

    * slightly

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • (archaic) Something.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.12:
    • Proceeding to the midst he stil did stand, / As if in minde he somewhat had to say […].
  • * Robert Trail
    • 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.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
    • Not seldom in this life, when, on the right side, fortune's favourites sail close by us, we, though all adroop before, catch somewhat of the rushing breeze, and joyfully feel our bagging sails fill out.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
  • * Grew
    • These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste.
  • * Dryden
    • 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.
  • * Tennyson
    • Here come those that worship me. / They think that I am somewhat .

    Statistics

    * English degree adverbs English hedges

    sometime

    English

    Alternative forms

    * some time (adverbial sense)

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (US) At an unstated or indefinite time in the future
    • I'll see you at the pub sometime this evening
    This will certainly happen sometime in the future
  • (obsolete) sometimes
  • (obsolete) At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Did they not sometime cry "All hail" to me?

    Synonyms

    * at some point * at some time, at some time or other * somewhen

    Derived terms

    * a sometime thing * sometime or other * sometimey

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Former, erstwhile; at some previous time.
    • my sometime friend and mentor
    Our sometime sister, now our queen. — Shakespeare.
    Ion, our sometime darling, whom we prized. — Talfourd.
  • Occasional.

    • Synonyms

    * (former) earlier, erstwhile, ex-, previous * (occasional)