The phrase "somewhat motivated" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a level of motivation that is not extremely high or low, but somewhere in between. It is often used to soften the intensity of a statement, making it less absolute. Here is an example: "Although she was somewhat motivated to start exercising, she found it difficult to stick to a consistent workout routine."
a Each item measured on a 7 point Likert scale: 1 = not at all motivated, 4 = somewhat motivated, and 7 = very motivated.
The former claim that if someone has a reason to do A, then it follows by necessity that she actually is somewhat motivated to do A (on the Motivation version), or actually has a desire that would be served by doing A (on the State version).
Motivation to lose weight was assessed with a direct question --"How motivated are you to lose weight?" [ 40] and participants responded using a 4-point Likert scale (1 = not at all, 2 = only a little, 3 = somewhat motivated, 4 = very motivated).
Woods seemed somewhat motivated by all the pretournament talk about Campbell.
"You can't help but be somewhat motivated when you see your captain come out and play the way that he does".
You also don't hear this being acknowledged by people whose livelihood comes from fighting compulsive gambling and who are, therefore, somewhat motivated to exaggerate the problem's magnitude.
Unlike his wastrel father (BA, Political Science, MA, Ph.D in History), the boy is somewhat more motivated and realistic (Applied Computer Science, Simulations Design).
The last time there were Winter Games, in Nagano in 1998, Ivan Hlinka's players outworked the somewhat less-motivated Russians, Canadians and Americans.
Certainly, past the freshman year of college, students should have become at least somewhat self-motivated and driven and no longer need tricks and entertainment value artificially added to most of their coursework.
That is, it appears to be at least somewhat religiously-motivated, a form of violent jihadism, the kind of thing that we more readily identify as "terrorism".
The majority of patients were somewhat or very motivated to lose weight and endorsed that they had specific plans to eat healthier and exercise.
