HomePrivacyAbout ☰

Define As It Were Meaning

As It Were
An extremely British way of saying "basically", "in a sense", "in a way", "in a manner of speaking", or "idiomatically", almost always used at the end of a sentence. It's often stuffed into a conversation when the speaker is having a difficult time expressing what they really mean in precise language, and it can take the place of "um" when used habitually to keep words flowing in the absence of thought.

He's a bit shy. He doesn't want to upset the apple cart, as it were.
By Corrinne
As It Were
It means "in fact, if not in deed." The statement to which it applies may not be the literal truth, but it's not far from it.

He's from the top of the lower classes, as it were.

He may not have ridden her horse, but I'm sure he's saddled her mare, as it were.
By Anabel
As It Were
sort of; in a way; as if it were true

"I'm in the market... as it were" - Cpt. Jack Sparrow - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
By Ammamaria
As It Were
a phrase used to sound cultured, especially when fellating a horse.

While i was sucking him off, as it were...
By Terza
Wered
Adj. crazy, strange, unusual, loco.
The real way to spell 'weird'.
Say weird, it souded like WE'RED didn't it??
Often thought of as the original spelling of weird, derived from the latin word "werd" meaning 'the one who cannot think properly'.

Person #1: Look at this SCENE kid's pictures...
Person #2: wow, thats a really wered photo angle.
By Reina
Were
A horrible misspelling of the contraction "we're", in which the omission of a single apostrophe changes the word into a completely different one. Commonly seen in the gaming world and in message boards

Were here! Were queer!
By Marcellina
Were
To describe in a "past tense" state.

To say something "Was" something else.

And if you are not careful with your definitions, you could end up making a separate definition for another word because you used mixed up "were" with "where."

Ghetto person: We was just chillin' at the MAWL!

Grammar Nazi: Don't you mean "Were"?

Ghetto person: You're about to be "Were-Dead"

Grammar Nazi: "Were-Dead"?

Ghetto person: As in "Were-dead, after I killed you and brought you back to life to help me prove my Alibi"

Grammar Nazi: That doesn't make sense."

Ghetto Person: Niga, it makes perfect sense. How can you be ded if you helping me with an alibi to another crime? You is one problem solved!

Grammar Nazi: . . .
By Annnora
Were
1: Someone who identifies themselves as having the soul of another creature, who often feels drawn to that species in one way or another.

2: A style of artwork that involves anthropomorphic creatures in an often digitrade form.

3: WW:tA gamers

4: Roleplayers that want to fit into a community to feel "speshul"


She takes pride in her spirituality as a were, although to know her from the outside, one would never suspect.

There are some awesome were artists out there, but don't they draw anything else?

"I will eat j00, for I am like a 10-foot tall were and shit" *proceeds with eyeroll*

Oh hey look, another self-proclaimed were has found their way to the boards.

By Isabella
Were
Referring to someone who is a WereCreature in general, being a wolf or not.

The weres ganged up on helpless victims and killed them.
By Cecilla
As It Were
Oops, I just spoke an inadvertent double entendre and I want you to believe that my mind is dirty enough to have realised it but not so dirty as to have done it deliberately

I was standing in a cold draught talking to that sexy new girl from no. 21 and now I'm all stiff. er.. as it were.
By Robbi