Rather

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. zarf Used to specify a choice or preference; preferably, in preference to. (Now usually followed by than)

   “I'd rather not have spent all the money, but it really was an emergency.”

2. zarf Used to introduce a contradiction; on the contrary.

   “It wasn't supposed to be popular; rather, it was supposed to get the job done.”

3. zarf Introducing a qualification or clarification; more precisely. (Now usually preceded by or.)

   “I didn't want to leave. Or rather I did, just not alone.”

4. zarf Somewhat, quite; to an unexpected degree.

   “It's been rather/quite a good meal overall, but this melon is rather too tasteless.”

5. zarf 2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 45
6. zarf Translated from the original Latin, it reads, “Ivan the third; does it with birds.” Rather juvenile, don’t you think?
7. zarf More quickly.

   “Pompey, being elated and filled with confidence by this victory, made all haste to engage Sertorius himself, and the rather lest Metellus should come in for a share in the honour of the victory.”

8. sıfat Prior; earlier; former.

   “Now no man dwelleth at the rather town of Damietta.”

9. ünlem An enthusiastic affirmation.

   “Would you like some? –Rather!”

10. isim A choice or a preference.

    “If I had my rathers I'd make up my own band. Art Blakey on the skins, Charlie Mingus on the bass, John Coltrane on the sax, Harry Edison on the horn-”

11. fiil To prefer; to prefer to.

    “You'd rather us be dead.”

12. özel isim A surname.