Synonyms for SOMEWHAT
ˈsʌmˌʰwʌt, -ˌʰwɒt, -ʰwət, -ˌwʌt, -ˌwɒt, -wətsome·what

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1. slightly, somewhat, more or lessadverb

   to a small degree or extent

   "his arguments were somewhat self-contradictory"; "the children argued because one slice of cake was slightly larger than the other"

   Synonyms:
   some, passably, slightly, just about, somewhat, slenderly, pretty, slimly, fairly, reasonably, middling, moderately, about, roughly, more or less, or so, approximately, around, close to, jolly

2. reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly, somewhat, fairly, middling, passablyadverb

   to a moderately sufficient extent or degree

   "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"

   Synonyms:
   jolly, fair, middling, passably, evenhandedly, fairly, clean, more or less, slightly, moderately, reasonably, pretty, sanely, somewhat, sensibly

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1. somewhatadjective

   Synonyms:
   something, in some degree, more or less

2. somewhatnoun

   Synonyms:
   something, more or less, a little

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1. List of paraphrases for "somewhat":

   slightly, rather, somehow, something, fairly, quite, enough, little, marginally, relatively, pretty, moderately, bit

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1. Joe Biden:

   The very idea the senator from Florida wants to put Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block every five years I find to be somewhat outrageous. So outrageous that you might not even believe it.

2. Valery Giscard:

   From the outset, Britain positioned itself somewhat at a tangent to the European system, the current efforts by David Cameron's government run along the same lines.

3. Mike Bowers:

   I didn't realize that Cookie Monster was so well known and part of the world cultural heritage! it is somewhat uncommon to find a face shape in agates.

4. Viljami Salmela:

   What came as a surprise was that depressed patients perceived the contrast of the images shown differently from non-depressed individuals, patients suffering from depression perceived the visual illusion presented in the patterns as weaker and, consequently, the contrast as somewhat stronger, than those who had not been diagnosed with depression.

5. Val Curtis:

   From an evolutionary point of view, sex is both attractive, because it helped our ancestors procreate, and risky -- therefore somewhat disgusting -- because sex risks the transmission of infections.