from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adv. Approximately; in a way; partially; not quite; somewhat.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adv. to some (great or small) extent
From a reanalysis of "sort of" in a phrase such as "a sort of merry dance" from noun ("sort") and preposition ("of") from the prepositional phrase "of merry dance" to adverb modifying "merry". (Wiktionary)
Sorry, no example sentences found.