roughly
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 7
/ˈɹʌf.li/(UK)
Definition of roughly
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adv
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In a rough manner; without kindness, softness, or gentleness.
“They treated the prisoners roughly [...] slashing pitilessly with their whips to drive them as wretched animals before them.”
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adv
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In a rough manner; without kindness, softness, or gentleness.
“They treated the prisoners roughly [...] slashing pitilessly with their whips to drive them as wretched animals before them.”
- Unevenly or irregularly.
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Without precision or exactness; imprecisely but close to in quantity or amount; approximately.
“Satanism can be divided, roughly, into two branches: the Luciferians and the Palladists.”
“Of the roughly 400 emerging infectious diseases that have been identified since 1940, more than 60% are zoonotic: ie they came from animals. Throughout history this has been common.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From rough + -ly.
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