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somehow

/ˈsʌmhaʊ/

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Northumbria/ˈsʊmhuː/

somehow adverb: in one way or another; in a way not yet known or explained; by some means.

Adverb

somehow (not comparable)

  1. In one way or another; in a way not yet known or explained; by some means
    • This problem has to be tackled somehow.
    • We don't know how he's still alive after the accident, but somehow he is.
    Synonyms:
    somewise, someway

somehow meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu

somehow in Tamil

எப்படியாவது

somehow in Marathi

कसाबसा

somehow in Bengali

একরকম

somehow in Telugu

in one way or another; in some way not yet known or designated
ఎలాగోలా elāgōlā, ఏదోరకంగా ēdōrakaṅgā
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somehow in Malayalam
എങ്ങിനെയെങ്കിലും
somehow in Kannada
ಹೇಗಾದರೂ ಮಾಡಿ, ಹೇಗೋ ಒಂದು ರೀತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ, ಎಂತೋ, ಏಕೋ
somehow in Sanskrit
समह samaha
somehow in Assamese
কেনেবাকৈ kenebakoi, কিবা প্ৰকাৰে kiba prokare
somehow in Tagalog
kahit na papaano, kahit papaano

Examples of somehow in a sentence

  • Seeing things on a big screen somehow makes them seem liver.
  • Somehow, she squashed all her books into her backpack, which was now too heavy to carry.
  • Their main problem is that they somehow believe that a 12-ton unit can handle this entire building.

All 40 example sentences with somehow

Synonyms of somehow

Origin of somehow

From some + how.

Words formed from somehow

Words that rhyme with somehow

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Questions about somehow

What does somehow mean?
Somehow means in one way or another; in a way not yet known or explained; by some means.
What is somehow in Tamil?
Somehow in Tamil is எப்படியாவது. See Somehow meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is somehow?
Somehow is an adverb.
How do you pronounce somehow?
Somehow is pronounced /ˈsʌmhaʊ/.

Words near somehow in the dictionary

  1. somedele
  2. somedog
  3. somefin'
  4. somefink
  5. somefur
  6. somehow
  7. somehow or another
  8. somehow or other
  9. somehow or the other
  10. somemore
  11. somen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: somehow (page history and authors); somehow (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); somehow (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); somehow (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); somehow (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); somehow (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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