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[syn: rather, kind of, kinda, sort of]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sort of
    adv 1: to some (great or small) extent; "it was rather cold";
           "the party was rather nice"; "the knife is rather dull";
           "I rather regret that I cannot attend"; "He's rather good
           at playing the cello"; "he is kind of shy" [syn:
           rather, kind of, kinda, sort of]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
24 Moby Thesaurus words for "sort of":
   a bit, a little, as it were, extremely, fairly, in a manner,
   in a measure, in a way, in some measure, kind of, moderately,
   more or less, pretty, quite, rather, scarcely, slightly,
   so to speak, some, something, somewhat, to a degree,
   to some extent, very