Usually means: Somewhat, to a limited extent.
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  1. sort of: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sort of: Merriam-Webster
  3. sort of: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sort of: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sort of: Vocabulary.com
  6. sort-of: Wordnik
  7. (a) sort of, sort of: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sort-of, sort of: Wiktionary
  9. sort of: Dictionary.com
  10. Sort Of: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. sort of: Rhymezone
  12. sort of: MyWord.info
  13. sort of: FreeDictionary.org
  14. sort of: ESL Idiom Page
  15. sort of: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. sort of: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sort of: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sort of: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sort of: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adverb:  (idiomatic, colloquial) Approximately; in a way; partially; not quite; somewhat.

Similar:
kind of, kinda, rather, kinda sorta, somewhatly, just about, sorta, fairly, sorta kinda, something like, more...

Opposite:
kind of, somewhat, a little, a bit, a tad, a touch, a trace, a soupcon

Types:
kind of, rather, somewhat, relatively, comparatively, more...

Phrases:
that sort of thing, Sort of Books, some sort of, a sort of, sort of gray, more...

Adjectives:
all that, end-to-end, something, how long, so, one-stop, all-inclusive, all around, all-in, borderline, most

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Similar:
kind of, kinda, rather, kinda sorta, somewhatly, just about, sorta, fairly, sorta kinda, something like, more...

Opposite:
kind of, somewhat, a little, a bit, a tad, a touch, a trace, a soupcon

Types:
kind of, rather, somewhat, relatively, comparatively, more...

Phrases:
that sort of thing, Sort of Books, some sort of, a sort of, sort of gray, any sort of, sort of cold weather, sort of like, this sort of, sort of rock, sort of sweatshirt, sort of swallow, sort of fat man, more...

Adjectives:
all that, end-to-end, something, how long, so, one-stop, all-inclusive, all around, all-in, borderline, most



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