İngilizce'de rather ne anlama geliyor ve rather'nin tanımı nedir?

Bu en yetkili İngilizce Sözlükte rather Telaffuz, Dilbilgisi ve Eşanlamlıları öğrenebilirsiniz.

rather ne demek

0 slightly or to a degree -- biraz, az çok, oldukça
- I rather like it.
- I find her books rather dull.
1 instead of -- yerine; ...dan/den ziyade/çok; ...-mektense/dense
- I thought we could go to the cinema this evening rather than stay at home.
- He saw his music as a hobby rather than a career.
2 If you would rather do something, you would prefer to do that thing. -- tercih etmek; yeğlemek
- I'd much rather go out for a meal than stay in and watch TV.
3 used to change something you have just said and make it more correct -- daha doğrusu, aslında
- I tried writing some drama, or rather comedy-drama, but it wasn't very good.

The intentions of policy thus need to be seen against the plans rather than the outcomes.
How do you know that said popinjays aren't sitting on the background rather than the stripe (the ordinary)?
Analysis of single channel records indicate that the effect is to favor transition to a substate rather than to physically alter the conductance pathway.
Their connection was purely mechanical, rather than teleological.
We can differentiate these categories as purely lexical, rather than syntactic.
In this sense they corresponded with purely phonological rather than morphosyntactic attributes of the input.
Actual choices are relevant not to the idea of the right but rather to its direction of exercise with respect to the protected domain.
In live performance, their bodies are exposed to view rather than protected by instruments.