Somewhat /(?)/

Some·what

Somewhat

n.
  1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
    These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste.
    — Grew.
    Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
  2. A person or thing of importance; a somebody.
    Here come those that worship me. They think that I am somewhat.

Somewhat

adv.
  1. In some degree or measure; a little.
    His giantship is gone, somewhat crestfallen.
    Somewhat back from the village street.