Somewhat vs Sometimes - What's the difference?
somewhat | sometimes |
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
On certain occasions, or in certain circumstances, but not always.
* (Jeremy Taylor)
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, passage=We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.}}
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, title= (obsolete) On a certain occasion in the past; once.
* (William Shakespeare)
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*, II.3.7:
(obsolete) former; sometime
As adverbs the difference between somewhat and sometimes
is that somewhat is to a limited extent or degree while sometimes is on certain occasions, or in certain circumstances, but not always.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 sometimes is
former; sometime.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 .
sometimes
English
Adverb
(-)- It is good that we sometimes be contradicted.
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- That fair and warlike form / In which the majesty of buried Denmark / Did sometimes march.
- For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
- they detract, scoffe, and raile (saith one), and bark at me on every side; but I, like that Albanian dog sometimes given to Alexander for a present, vindico me ab illis solo contemptu ; I lie still, and sleep, vindicate myself by contempt alone.
Synonyms
* at one time or another * at times * every so often * from time to time * occasionally * once in a whileSee also
* sometimeAdjective
(-)- Thy sometimes brother's wife. — Shakespeare.