Meanings
- not comparableTo such a degree or extent.
The plan was successful, insofar (as) it saved money.
4 more examples
Buying the stock was a bad idea, insofar (as) it dropped immediately after we bought it.
the fugitive-slave act did not affect a foreign country which Virginia claimed to be and that she must reckon it one of the infelicities of her position that in so far at least she was taken at her word
1861 May, Major-General Benjamin Franklin Butler, letter to Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, Fort Monroe: Headquarters Department of Virginia, Union ArmySeventh: The defendant, its agents, servants and employees were negligent insofar that the trolley car was started while the plaintiff, Rose Goldman was in the act of alighting therefrom, and before she had reasonable opportunity to fully descend therefrom; insofar that the defendant, its agents, servants and employees did not take proper precaution and used reasonable care in starting the trolly car; insofar that no warning was given to the plaintiff, Rose Goldman, that the trolley car would start and by reason of the negligence of the defendant in other respects.
1933, New York Supreme Court, page 9Although the respective articles of the EEC Treaty expressly provide that all provisions including competition rules have to be applied to public enterprises in the same way as to private enterprises experience of past 20 years shows that rather little has been done insofar.
1980, International Bar Association. Section on Business Law, International Bar Association. Conference, Codes of Conduct for Transnational Corporations, page 52 - not comparableInsofar as.
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbto the degree or extent that
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Univerbation of in + so + far.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans sovêr
- sovêrto such a degree or extent
Arabic طَالَمَا
- طَالَمَا (ṭālamā)to such a degree or extent
Bulgarian доколкото
- доколкото (dokolkoto)to such a degree or extent
Chinese Mandarin 到这种程度
- 到这种程度to such a degree or extent
German insofern, insoweit
- insofernto such a degree or extent
- insoweitto such a degree or extent
Polish o ile
- o ileto such a degree or extent
Spanish en la medida, en la medida en
- en la medidato such a degree or extent
- en la medida ento such a degree or extent
Cite this entry
insofar. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/insofar
“insofar.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/insofar. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “insofar,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/insofar.
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