Dictionary Entry
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.
- 2adjective
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.
- 3adjective
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.
- 4adjective
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.
- 5adjective
Not much; a little; moderate; as, the censure was to some extent just.
- 6adjective
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.
- 7adjective
Considerable in number or quality.
- 8adjective
Certain; those of one part or portion; -- in distinct from other or others; as, some men believe one thing, and others another.
- 9adjective
A part; a portion; -- used pronominally, and followed sometimes by of; as, some of our provisions.
- 10adjective
relatively many but unspecified in number
"they were here for some weeks"
"we did not meet again for some years"
- 11adjective
relatively much but unspecified in amount or extent
"we talked for some time"
"he was still some distance away"
- 12adjective
remarkable
"that was some party"
"she is some skier"
- 13adjective
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"
- 14adverb
(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
"lasted approximately an hour"
"in just about a minute"
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