What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Somewhat vs Sort_of - What's the difference?

Somewhat | sort_of | Synonyms |

Somewhat is a synonym of sort_of.


As adverbs the difference between Somewhat and sort_of

is that Somewhat is to a limited extent or degree while sort_of is (idiomatic|colloquial)  approximately; in a way; partially; not quite; somewhat.

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.

Somewhat

English

Alternative forms

* (qualifier) summat (and variants listed there)

Adverb

(-)
  • To a limited extent or degree.
  • *
    • , 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.}}

    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

    sort_of

    English

    Adverb

  • (idiomatic, colloquial)  Approximately; in a way; partially; not quite; somewhat.
  • *, chapter=19
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘An Alsatia like the ancient one behind the Strand, or the Saffron Hill before the First World War. […]’}}

    Synonyms

    * sorta * kind of

    See also

    * of sorts