something of

phrase

: to some degree

—used to make a statement or description less forceful or definite

He is something of an expert with car repair.

We have something of a problem here.

The movie was something of a disappointment.

Examples of something of in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The new era of worker power that labor advocates proclaimed as the pandemic ebbed was something of a chimera. — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026

Flashbacks to the characters’ youth (with Arquette’s own daughter Harlow Jane playing her younger self) identify Diehl-Rothstein as an intelligent, ingenuous young woman who just needs a little help to make something of herself. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 Sep. 2026

Richards, who has always sung his blues songs with a vocal quiver that owes a debt to Reed, plays the guitar with a little more force than Reed did and affects something of a Mississippi-via-Dartford drawl on the vocals. — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2026

Cheeto is something of a celebrity among the UC Davis community. — Vince Basada, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for something of

• hereinabove
• above
• foxglove
• hereof
• thereof
• whereof
• dove
• glove
• love
• shove