Word Meanings - SUBASTRINGENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Somewhat astringent.

SOMEWHAT
1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
ASTRINGENTLY
In an astringent manner.
ASTRINGENT
1. Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit. 2. Stern; austere; as, an astringent type of virtue.
SUBASTRINGENT
Somewhat astringent.