SOMEHOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does somehow mean? 

• SOMEHOW (adverb)
  The adverb SOMEHOW has 2 senses:

1. in some unspecified way or manner; or by some unspecified means

2. for some unspecified reason

  Familiarity information: SOMEHOW used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOMEHOW (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In some unspecified way or manner; or by some unspecified means

Synonyms:

somehow; someway; someways

Context example:

he tried to make is someway acceptable

Sense 2

Meaning:

For some unspecified reason

Context example:

he had me dead to rights but somehow I got away with it

 Context examples 

White Fang had never seen dogs before, but at sight of them he felt that they were his own kind, only somehow different.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Had he done so, I should have managed somehow to carry Miss Brewster away with me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I begin to feel quite young already, for somehow all my troubles seemed to fly away when you came.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Somehow he was afraid of her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“You don’t expect such energy from me, do you, Sherlock? But somehow this case attracts me.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I must not ask him, for fear I shall do more harm than good; but I must somehow learn the facts of his journey abroad.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“There was that sort of thing done to me somehow. Eh?” I nodded at him, and he nodded back again.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They might advance rapidly if they would, however; they must advance somehow or other whether they would or no.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Another idea was that the observations might somehow be capturing two objects: a very old star and an embryonic cloud of star-making material in the same field.

(NASA Team Probes Peculiar Age-Defying Star, NASA)

"Opportunity!" repeated Mrs. Jennings—"Oh! as to that, when a man has once made up his mind to such a thing, somehow or other he will soon find an opportunity.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)