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Definitions

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  • adverb idiomatic, colloquial Approximately; in a way; partially; not quite; somewhat.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb to some (great or small) extent

Etymologies

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From a reanalysis of "sort of" in a phrase such as "a sort of merry dance" from noun ("sort") and preposition ("of") from the prepositional phrase "of merry dance" to adverb modifying "merry".

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synonyms (25)

Words with the same meaning

  1. a bit
  2. a little
  3. as it were
  4. extremely
  5. fairly
  6. in a manner
  7. in a measure
  8. in a way
  9. in some measure
  10. kind of
  11. moderately
  12. more or less
  13. pretty
  14. quite
  15. rather
  16. scarcely
  17. slightly
  18. so to speak
  19. some
  20. something
  21. somewhat
  22. sorta
  23. to a degree
  24. to some extent
  25. very

cross-references (1)

Cross-references

  1. of sorts

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