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in some measure

ADVERB
partially
Synonyms
STRONGEST
moderately partly somewhat
WEAK
by degrees by installments fractionally halfway in part little by little not wholly piece by piece piecemeal to a certain degree to a certain extent
Antonyms
WEAK
completely totally wholly
ADVERB
partly
Synonyms
STRONGEST
at least partially slightly somewhat
WEAK
at best at most at worst bit by bit by degrees carelessly halfway in a general way in bits and pieces in part in some ways inadequately incompletely insufficiently little by little measurably not entirely not fully not strictly speaking not wholly notably noticeably piece by piece piecemeal relatively so far as possible to a certain degree to a certain extent up to a certain point within limits
Antonyms
WEAK
completely totally wholly

Example Sentences

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Conventionally, doing a series of big favors for a constituency results in some measure of support from that group.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2026

It is, in some measure, an educational failure.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

The once sedate RBS had become in some measure the biggest bank in the world.

From BBC • May 30, 2025

And while that seems to be in some measure the point, it is, all the same, dreary and dismal and does not count so much as an adaptation as a remodeling.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2023

The trouble, he explained, is that nearly all the things that would constitute warning signs already exist in some measure at Yellowstone.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.