some

some is a 4-letter English word with 14 senses as adjective and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A combining form or suffix from Gr. sw^ma (gen. sw`matos) the body; as in merosome, a body segment; cephalosome, etc. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. A combining form or suffix from Gr. sw^ma (gen. sw`matos) the body; as in merosome, a body segment; cephalosome, etc.
2. adjective. An adjective suffix having primarily the sense of like or same, and indicating a considerable degree of the thing or quality denoted in the first part of the compound; as in mettlesome, full of mettle or spirit; gladsome, full of gladness; winsome, blithesome, etc.
3. adjective. Consisting of a greater or less portion or sum; composed of a quantity or number which is not stated; -- used to express an indefinite quantity or number; as, some wine; some water; some persons. Used also pronominally; as, I have some.
4. adjective. A certain; one; -- indicating a person, thing, event, etc., as not known individually, or designated more specifically; as, some man, that is, some one man.
5. adjective. Not much; a little; moderate; as, the censure was to some extent just.
6. adjective. About; near; more or less; -- used commonly with numerals, but formerly also with a singular substantive of time or distance; as, a village of some eighty houses; some two or three persons; some hour hence.
7. adjective. Considerable in number or quality.
8. adjective. Certain; those of one part or portion; -- in distinct from other or others; as, some men believe one thing, and others another.
9. adjective. A part; a portion; -- used pronominally, and followed sometimes by of; as, some of our provisions.
10. adjective. relatively many but unspecified in number

    "they were here for some weeks"

    "we did not meet again for some years"

11. adjective. relatively much but unspecified in amount or extent

    "we talked for some time"

    "he was still some distance away"

12. adjective. remarkable

    "that was some party"

    "she is some skier"

13. adjective. quantifier; used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity

    "have some milk"

    "some roses were still blooming"

14. adverb. (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct

    "lasted approximately an hour"

    "in just about a minute"

    Synonyms: about, approximately, around, roughly

Synonyms

about, approximately, around, roughly

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in some:

emos, meso, mose

Words from these letters

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