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something

'sʌmθiŋ8 senses · 46 ms
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pron/ˈsʌm.θɪŋ/[ˈsɐm(p)θɪŋ][ˈsʌm(p)θɪŋ]
  1. 1

    An uncertain or unspecified thing; one thing.indefinitepronoun

    • I must have forgotten to pack something, but I can't think what.
    • I have something for you in my bag.
  2. 2

    A quality to a moderate degree.colloquialindefinitepronoun

    • The performance was something of a disappointment.
    • That child is something of a genius.
  3. 3

    A talent or quality that is difficult to specify.colloquialindefinitepronoun

    • She has a certain something.
  4. 4

    Somebody who or something that is superlative or notable in some way.colloquialindefiniteoften

    • He's really something! I've never heard such a great voice.
    • She's quite something. I can't believe she would do such a mean thing.
adj/ˈsʌm.θɪŋ/[ˈsɐm(p)θɪŋ][ˈsʌm(p)θɪŋ]
  1. 1

    Having a characteristic that the speaker cannot specify.not-comparable

    • She was so something that she cried all the way home.
    • "Very poetic." They came to a halt before the outer door. "It's very something," Rusty said wistfully. "How do you do it?"
adv/ˈsʌm.θɪŋ/[ˈsɐm(p)θɪŋ][ˈsʌm(p)θɪŋ]
  1. 1

    Somewhat; to a degree.not-comparable

    • The baby looks something like his father.
  2. 2

    Used to adverbialise a following adjectivecolloquialespeciallynot-comparable

    • I miss them something terrible/rotten. (I miss them terribly)
verb/ˈsʌm.θɪŋ/[ˈsɐm(p)θɪŋ][ˈsʌm(p)θɪŋ]
  1. 1

    Designates an action whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g. from words of a song.colloquial

    • 1890, William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0140439234&id=IOZeJi7U4eEC&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&sig=LW2P-uKmoZabe70ZKnIHIMQLXlw He didn’t apply for it for a long time, and then there was
    • 2003, George Angel, “Allegoady,” in Juncture, Lara Stapleton and Veronica Gonzalez edd. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1887128913&id=qB-D32yV1VAC&pg=PA161&lpg=PA161&sig=9AYyYLA-MQqTgAbptreoe3VyOzQ She hovers over the s
noun/ˈsʌm.θɪŋ/[ˈsɐm(p)θɪŋ][ˈsʌm(p)θɪŋ]
  1. 1

    An object whose nature is yet to be defined.

    • Yea, ’t is true; I ’d know thee by thine eyen, that are gray, and thoughtful, and dark with a something that lies behind the colour of them,—and shining by the light of a lamp lit somewhere within.
  2. 2

    An object whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g., from words of a song. Also used to refer to an object earlier indefinitely referred to as 'something' (pronoun sense).

    • What was the something the pilot saw, the something worth killing for?

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