somehowadverb
uk/ˈsʌm.haʊ/us/ˈsʌm.haʊ/B1 US informal also someway in a way or by some means that is not known or not stated:
It won't be easy, but we'll get across the river somehow.
I'm not sure how, but somehow or other we'll raise the money.
B2 for a reason that is not clear:
I know what we're doing is legal, but somehow it doesn't feel right.
More examples
- News of the pay cuts had somehow leaked out.
- A small dog had somehow managed to survive the fire.
- She's managed somehow to procure his phone number.
- Although her name is Clare, her little sister called her Lali, and somehow the name stuck.
- He's overweight and bald, and yet somehow, he's incredibly attractive.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Ways of achieving things
- a means to an end idiom
- actively
- another
- avenue
- basis
- channel
- fair
- jump
- mean
- medium
- mixed media
- modality
- modus operandi
- one way or another idiom
- one-handed
- resort
- shortcut
- vein
- whereby
- workings
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