insofar

Examples

• All

• We support education only insofar as it is a means to that end.

  Academic text (1999)

• In essence, the military and the ruling elite were becoming increasingly homogeneous insofar as values were concerned.

  Academic text (1999)

• Thus, animals can have interests in this way insofar as there are goods that are in their interest.

  Academic text (1999)

• I think we have settled matters insofar as we are able.

  Pirates (1986)

• Missing out on pleasure is only bad insofar as it produces actual pain.

  Philosophy Tube

• So that they can be guaranteed those manufacturing jobs, but insofar as that flow of capital is allowed, their rent is now under threat, right?

  Stanford

• Truth doesn't lie on this side, except insofar as reason has entered into it.

  Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy

• Insofar as the new law is concerned, a person is deemed Jewish if he is himself or has at least one parent, or has at least two grandparents who are, at the effective date of the legislation, members of a Jewish congregation.

  Sunshine (1999)

• Throughout, Machiavelli appears entirely unconcerned with morality, except insofar as it's helpful or harmful to maintaining power.

• I will help you with your project insofar as you provide me with the necessary details.

Synonyms

S

so far as

vsinsofar

98 3.5

As much as something is true or known

is the same meaning but usually written as one word

T

to that extent

vsinsofar

14 3.9

As much as someone says or suggests

marks a general extent or truth rather than referring back to a prior level

I

inasmuch as

vsinsofar

• Formal

5 6.6

To give a reason, like because

marks extent or degree rather than giving a cause or reason

T

to that degree

vsinsofar

3 3.9

It applies at the level already mentioned

expresses extent in general terms not only the exact degree mentioned

I

in so far

vsinsofar

2 6.0

Only to the degree that something is true

is identical in sense but appears as a single fused form

I

insomuch

vsinsofar

• Archaic

1 9.2

So much that something happens

expresses the same extent but is more common as the one-word form

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology