somewhat

Etymology

some + what

adv

1. To a limited extent or degree; not completely.
   The crowd was somewhat larger than expected, perhaps due to the good weather.
   The decision to shave or not is a somewhat personal one.
2. (UK, meiosis) Very.
   Two of the coaches are still on the site of the line; one, a first class observation coach carrying the S.R. number 6991, is at Snapper Halt, where it still stands, in fair condition but somewhat weatherbeaten […] 1942 September and October, “Notes and News: Lynton & Barnstaple Stock”, in Railway Magazine, page 309

pron

1. (archaic) Something.
   a. 1716, Robert Trail, sermon on the Lord's Prayer 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.

noun

1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
2. A person or thing of importance; a somebody.
   c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Troilus and Cressida Pity that the researchful notary has not either told us in what century, and of what history, he was a writer, or been simply content to depose, that Lollius, if a writer of that name existed at all, was a somewhat somewhere.