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roughly

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Adverb
 : 
rough=ly

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adverbial roughly has 3 senses

  • roughly(r = adv.all) about, approximately, around, close to, just about, more or less, or so, some - (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct; "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he's about 30 years old"; "I've had about all I can stand"; "we meet about once a month"; "some forty people came"; "weighs around a hundred pounds"; "roughly $3,000"; "holds 3 gallons, more or less"; "20 or so people were at the party"
  • roughly(r = adv.all) rough - with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly'); "he was pushed roughly aside"; "they treated him rough"
  • roughly(r = adv.all) rough - with rough motion as over a rough surface; "ride rough"

CIDE DICTIONARY

roughlyadv. 
     In a rough manner; unevenly; harshly; rudely; severely; austerely.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

roughly, adv.
1 in a rough manner.
2 approximately (roughly 20 people attended).

Idiom
roughly speaking in an approximate sense (it is, roughly speaking, a square).

THESAURUS

roughly

about, all but, all in all, all things considered, almost, altogether, approximately, approximatively, around, as a rule, as a whole, as an approximation, as good as, at irregular intervals, at large, at random, austerely, awkwardly, badly, broadly, broadly speaking, brokenly, brutally, by and large, by catches, by fits, by jerks, by snatches, capriciously, chiefly, choppily, clumsily, coarsely, commonly, crassly, crudely, cruelly, desultorily, disconnectedly, discontinuously, eccentrically, erratically, fitfully, for practical purposes, generally, generally speaking, grimly, grossly, haltingly, hardly, harshly, heartlessly, improperly, in general, in round numbers, in snatches, in spots, in the rough, inartistically, inclemently, inconstantly, indecently, indecorously, indelicately, inefficiently, inelegantly, ineptly, inexpertly, inhumanly, intermittently, irregularly, jaggedly, jerkily, just about, lurchingly, mainly, maladroitly, mercilessly, more or less, most, mostly, nearly, nonuniformly, normally, off and on, offensively, on balance, on the whole, ordinarily, overall, painfully, patchily, pitilessly, practically, predominantly, prevailingly, primitively, raggedly, ribaldly, rigorously, rough, roughly speaking, roundly, routinely, rudely, ruthlessly, savagely, say, severely, spasmodically, speaking generally, sporadically, spottily, sternly, stringently, uncertainly, uncouthly, unevenly, unkindly, unmercifully, unmethodically, unpredictably, unrhythmically, unseemly, unsparingly, unsteadily, unsympathetically, unsystematically, untastefully, usually, variably, violently, vulgarly, well-nigh, whimsically, wobblingly

ROGET THESAURUS

roughly

Nearness

N nearness, proximity, propinquity, vicinity, vicinage, neighborhood, adjacency, contiguity, short distance, short step, short cut, earshot, close quarters, stone's throw, bow shot, gun shot, pistol shot, hair's breadth, span, purlieus, neighborhood, vicinage, environs, alentours, suburbs, confines, banlieue, borderland, whereabouts, bystander, neighbor, borderer, approach, convergence, perihelion, near, nigh, close at hand, near at hand, close, neighboring, bordering upon, contiguous, adjacent, adjoining, proximate, proximal, at hand, handy, near the mark, near run, home, intimate, near, nigh, hard by, fast by, close to, close upon, hard upon, at the point of, next door to, within reach, within call, within hearing, within earshot, within an ace of, but a step, not far from, at no great distance, on the verge of, on the brink of, on the skirts of, in the environs, at one's door, at one's feet, at one's elbow, at one's finger's end, at one's side, on the tip of one's tongue, under one's nose, within a stone's throw, in sight of, in presence of, at close quarters, cheek by jole, cheek by jowl, beside, alongside, side by side, tete-a-tete, in juxtaposition, yardarm to yardarm, at the heels of, on the confines of, at the threshold, bordering upon, verging to, in the way, about, hereabouts, thereabouts, roughly, in round numbers, approximately, approximatively, as good as, well-nigh.

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