Somewhat vs Directly - What's the difference?
somewhat | directly |
To a limited extent or degree.
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(archaic) Something.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.12:
* Robert Trail
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
* Grew
* Dryden
A person or thing of importance; a somebody.
* Tennyson
In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.
In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary, but by direct means.
Plainly, without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 19, author=Josh Halliday, work=the Guardian
, title= Exactly; just.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= Straightforwardly; honestly.
(label) Immediately.
(label) Soon; next; when it becomes convenient.
As soon as.
* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 725:
* 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 463:
As adverbs the difference between somewhat and directly
is that somewhat is to a limited extent or degree while directly is in a direct manner; in a straight line or course.As a pronoun somewhat
is (archaic) something.As a noun somewhat
is more or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.As a conjunction directly is
as soon as.somewhat
English
Alternative forms
* (qualifier) summat (and variants listed there)Adverb
(-)See also
* slightlyPronoun
(English Pronouns)- Proceeding to the midst he stil did stand, / As if in minde he somewhat had to say […].
- 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.
- 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)- 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.
- Here come those that worship me. / They think that I am somewhat .
directly
English
Adverb
(en adverb)Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?, passage="Mujtahidd" has attracted almost 300,000 followers since the end of last year, when he began posting scandalous claims about the Saudi elite. In one tweet, Mujtahidd directly challenged Prince Abdul Aziz Bin Fahd about his political history: "Did you resign or were you forced to resign from your post as head of the diwan [office] of the council of ministers?"}}
The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,
Antonyms
* indirectlyConjunction
(English Conjunctions)- Tenderly, reluctantly, he took his leave of her, promising that he would contact her directly he got back, perhaps in ten days or so.
- He is to go to Calais, directly this is over, to replace Lord Berners as governor [...].