be something of a sth
informalDefinition
C2 used to describe a person or thing in a way that is partly true but not completely or exactly: It came as something of a surprise. He has a reputation as something of a troublemaker. I have a biology question for you - I gather you're something of an expert.Approximate
(Definition of be something of a sth from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
© Cambridge University Press)
Browse related topics
You are looking at an entry to do with Approximate, but you might be interested in these topics from the Right and wrong topic area:
- Accurate and exact
- Balance and imbalance
- Being suitable or unsuitable
- Correcting and mending
- Faults and mistakes
- Inconvenience
- Justice and fairness
- Making mistakes
- Matching and co-ordinating
- Perfect and faultless
- Proving and disproving
- Reality and truth
- Suitable and acceptable
- True, real, false, and unreal
- Unfairness and favouring someone unfairly
- Unreal things and unreality
- Unspoilt
- Unsuitable and unacceptable
- Wanting everything to be right
- Wrong
Browse the Dictionary
Browse the Thesaurus
SMART Thesaurus
Synonyms and related words:
- (a) sort of idiom
- -ish suffix (QUITE)
- about adverb (APPROXIMATELY)
- approx. adverb
- approximate adjective
- approximately adverb
- ballpark adjective
- in the area of idiom
- in the neighbourhood of sth idiom
- in the vicinity of idiom
- loose adjective (NOT EXACT)
- loosely adverb (NOT EXACT)
- maybe adverb
- rough adjective (NOT EXACT)
- roughly adverb (NOT EXACTLY)
- round about idiom
- rule of thumb idiom
- sense noun (MEANING)
- sketchy adjective
- some adverb (APPROXIMATELY)
Topic:
Approximate
Our dictionaries
Word of the Day
Blog
Read our blog about how the English language behaves.
New Words
Find words and meanings that have just started to be used in English, and let us know what you think of them.
