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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial somehow has 2 senses
- somehow(r = adv.all) in some manner, in some way, someway, someways - in some unspecified way or manner; or by some unspecified means; "they managed somehow"; "he expected somehow to discover a woman who would love him"; "he tried to make is someway acceptable"
- somehow(r = adv.all) Array - for some unspecified reason; "It doesn't seem fair somehow"; "he had me dead to rights but somehow I got away with it"
CIDE DICTIONARY
somehow, adv.
In one way or another; in some way not yet known or designated; by some means; as, the thing must be done somehow; he lives somehow. [1913 Webster]
" The indefiniteness of somehow is emphasized by the addition of or other."
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"By their action upon one another they may be swelled somehow, so as to shorten the length."
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"Although youngest of the familly, he has somehow or other got the entire management of all the others."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
somehow, adv.
1 for some reason or other (somehow I never liked them).
2 in some unspecified or unknown way (he somehow dropped behind).
3 no matter how (must get it finished somehow).
1 for some reason or other (somehow I never liked them).
2 in some unspecified or unknown way (he somehow dropped behind).
3 no matter how (must get it finished somehow).
THESAURUS
somehow
accidentally, after a fashion, anyhow, anyway, anywise, as it chanced, by a fluke, by accident, by chance, by good fortune, by hazard, by some means, casually, for some reason, fortuitously, in, in some way, incidentally, no matter how, perchance, somehow or other, someway, unpredictablyROGET THESAURUS
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Instrumentality
N instrumentality, aid, subservience, subserviency, mediation, intervention, medium, intermedium, vehicle, hand, agency, minister, handmaid, midwife, accoucheur, accoucheuse, obstetrician, gobetween, cat's-paw, stepping-stone, opener, key, master key, passkey, latchkey, open sesame, passport, passe-partout, safe-conduct, password, instrument, expedient, means, instrumental, useful, ministerial, subservient, mediatorial, intermediate, intervening, conducive, through, by, per, whereby, thereby, hereby, by the agency of, by dint of, by virtue of, in virtue of, through the medium of, along with, on the shoulders of, by means of, by the aid of, with the aid of, per fas et nefas, by fair means or foul, somehow, somehow or other, by hook or by crook.Attribution
N attribution, theory, etiology, ascription, reference to, rationale, accounting for, palaetiology, imputation, derivation from, filiation, affiliation, pedigree, explanation, reason why, attributed, attributable, referable to, referrible to, due to, derivable from, owing to, putative, ecbatic, hence, thence, therefore, for, since, on account of, because, owing to, on that account, from this cause, from that cause, thanks to, forasmuch as, whence, propter hoc, why? wherefore? whence? how comes it, how is it, how happens it? how does it happen? in some way, in some such way, somehow, somehow or other, that is why, hinc illae lachrymae.
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