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TOPIK 5adverb

자못

jamot [자몯]

자못 + 진지하다/궁금하다/크다 (literary)

quite, rather, considerably

Example

결과가 어떻게 나올지 모두 자못 궁금해했어요.

Everyone was quite curious about how the results would turn out.

Word parts

A literary word, easy to confuse with 사뭇 'strikingly'.