Somewhat vs Limited - What's the difference?
somewhat | limited |
To a limited extent or degree.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, 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
(limit)
With certain (often specified) limits placed upon it.
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As an adverb somewhat
is to a limited extent or degree.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 a verb limited is
past tense of limit.As an adjective limited is
with certain (often specified) limits placed upon it.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 .
limited
English
(wikipedia limited)Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.