Word Direct Answers

What does "something" mean?

Something: A part; a portion, more or less; an indefinite quantity or degree; a little. Something yet of doubt remains. Milton. Something of it arises from our infant state. I. Watts.

Additional senses

  1. 2.A person or thing importance. If a man thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. Gal. vi.
  2. 3., adv. In some degree; somewhat; to some exrent; at some distance. Shak. I something fear my father's wrath. Shak. We have something fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly. Burke. My sense of touch is something coarse. Tennyson. It must be done to-night, And something from the palace. Shak.

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