más bien

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Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌmas ˈbjen/
Syllabification: más bien

Adverb

rather, slightly
Es más bien pequeño
It's rather/quite small / it's smallish

Conjunction

rather, or rather (more precisely)
- 2015 October 20, Jordi Soler, “La destilación genética”, in El País‎:
  La obra de Johann Sebastian Bach es un ejemplo, más bien una evidencia, quizá única en la historia del arte, de un fenómeno que se me ocurre llamar destilación genética.
  Johann Sebastian Bach's oeuvre is an example, or rather evidence, perhaps unique in the history of art, of a phenomenon I like to call genetic distillation.

Further reading

“más bien”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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