how
how is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 7 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.2. To what degree or extent, number or amount; in what proportion; by what measure or quality. O, how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. Ps. cxix.
- 2.By how much they would diminish the present extent of the sea, so much they would impair the fertility, and fountains, and rivers of the earth. Bentley.
- 3.For what reason; from what cause. How now, my love! why is your cheek so pale Shak.
- 4.In what state, condition, or plight. How, and with what reproach, shall I return Dryden.
- 5.By what name, designation, or title. How art thou called Shak.
- 6.At what price; how dear. [Obs.] How a score of ewes now Shak. Note: How is used in each sense, interrogatively, interjectionally, and relatively; it is also often employed to emphasize an interrogation or exclamation. "How are the mighty fallen!" 2 Sam. i.
- 7.Sometimes, also, it is used as a noun; -- as, the how, the when, the wherefore. Shelley. Let me beg you -- don't say "How" for "What" Holmes.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- according
- accordingly
- adventitious
- agency
- aid
- all
- anchor
- and
- any
- are
- assistance
- attitude
- attribution
- being
- bow
- capital
- case
- causation
- certain
- circumstance
- circumstantial
- conditional
- conditionally
- conjunctive
- context
- contingency
- contingent
- crisis
- critical
- dependence
- emergence
- emergency
- environment
- event
- exigency
- extrinsic
- find
- footing
- given
- happen
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is how.
- What is 2. To what degree or extent, number or amount; in what proportion; by what measure or quality. O, how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. Ps. cxix called?
- What is by how much they would diminish the present extent of the sea, so much they would impair the fertility, and fountains, and rivers of the earth. Bentley called?
- What is for what reason; from what cause. How now, my love! why is your cheek so pale Shak called?
- What is in what state, condition, or plight. How, and with what reproach, shall I return Dryden called?
- What is by what name, designation, or title. How art thou called Shak called?
- What is sometimes, also, it is used as a noun; -- as, the how, the when, the wherefore. Shelley. Let me beg you -- don't say "How" for "What" Holmes called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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