somehow

Examples

• All

• Yeah, that is somehow worse than I expected.

• Even I can walk along and tell myself that things would work out somehow.

  Hitler's Children (1943)

• What you do has to be somehow world changing.

• That this interest was somehow the cause of the war.

• But she tried, she got sick and somehow she died.

• And somehow we all have to get past that.

  André Duqum

• You need to somehow measure aspects of this world.

• Somehow I think the world would be better for it.

  Enter Nowhere (2015)

• Gabe was attractive, very attractive, and somehow interesting looking, but so were a million men.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Somehow, somehow, she managed to complete the project on time despite all the challenges.

Synonyms

F

for some reason

vssomehow

148 2.8

Nobody knows why something happened

expresses the same idea more generally as a single adverbial notion

M

mysteriously

vssomehow

67 4.6

In a way that is strange and hard to understand

is neutral about strangeness and only notes lack of explanation

I

inexplicably

vssomehow

29 6.9

In a way that cannot be explained or understood

says the cause or way is unknown rather than impossible to explain

S

someway

vssomehow

4 6.5

In a way that is not known or clear

also covers unknown reasons as well as unspecified ways

U

unexplainably

vssomehow

1 6.9

In a way that people cannot understand

frames the reason or manner as unknown without claiming impossibility

I

inscrutably

vssomehow

1 9.6

In a way that hides what someone feels and is hard to understand

is more ordinary and simple about an unknown cause or manner

G

God knows how

vssomehow

• Informal

8.6

In a way that no one can explain

is more neutral and does not express surprise or emotion

Antonyms

C

clearly

∞ 1.0

In a way that leaves no doubt

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology