Somewhat vs False - What's the difference?
somewhat | false |
To a limited extent or degree.
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, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.}}
(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
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As an adverb somewhat
is to a limited extent or degree.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 an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.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 .
false
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Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}