English

Adverb

sorta ‎(not comparable)

1. (informal) Sort of; somewhat; not quite.

   The portraits on the wall aren't so useful, just sorta cool to have around

   • 1912, Caspar Whitney, Albert Britt, Outing: Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction, Volume 60, page 680,

     'Webb,' he says sorta sorrowful like, 'it looks like a howlin' shame to have a bang-up American girl hooked up to a money-grubbin' member of the British nobility. […] '

   • 1993 July, Sort of a Hero, in Boys' Life, page 34,

     In fact the whole thing sorta backfired on old Chuck — and on me and Pete too. Instead of laughing about it, most people thought it was pretty crummy.

Synonyms

• kinda

Translations

Contraction

sorta ‎(plural sortsa)

1. (colloquial) Sort of.

   There's gotta be some sorta explanation.

   • 2001, Lawrence A. Wenzel, The Sandcastle at High Tide, page 97,

     He glanced at her then back at me. "What sorta research?"

     "Well, war correspondent might not be too far off," I said.

Anagrams

• Astro, ratos, roast, rotas, taros

Italian

Noun

sorta f ‎(plural sorte)

1. sort, type, kind

Verb

sorta

1. Feminine singular past participle of sorgere.

Anagrams

• astro, sarto, starò, tarso

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

sȏrta f ‎(Cyrillic spelling со̑рта)

1. sort, kind

Declension

Veps

Verb

sorta

1. to bring down, to knock down
2. to cut down, to chop down, to fell
3. to drop (by accident)

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “валить, ронять, сбивать, уронить”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika