SORT OF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sort of mean? 

• SORT OF (adverb)
  The adverb SORT OF has 1 sense:

1. to some (great or small) extent

  Familiarity information: SORT OF used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SORT OF (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To some (great or small) extent

Synonyms:

kind of; kinda; rather; sort of

Context example:

he is kind of shy

 Context examples 

I thought you liked that sort of thing.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And Miss Ingram: what sort of a voice had she?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She was trying to make herself of worth in his eyes—of the sort of worth he seemed to value.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Why, as to that, Mr. Rushworth is a very good sort of young man, and it is a great match for her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“It is very much the sort of thing that I expected,” said he.

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

Then, my dear Isabella, it is the most extraordinary sort of thing in the world, for in general every thing does give you cold.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

No one has taken visible-wavelength spectra of Europa before that had this sort of spatial and spectral resolution.

(Table Salt Compound Spotted on Europa, NASA)

“Look sharp!” said the king to the huntsmen, “and see what sort of game lies there.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

"I shall really be very unhappy unless you give me the sort of courage that makes one forget he is afraid."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The whole disordered appearance of the camp showed that there had been some sort of attack, and the rifle-shot no doubt marked the time when it had occurred.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)