roughly

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
15
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈɹʌf.li/(UK)

Definition of roughly

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. 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

  1. 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.”
  2. Unevenly or irregularly.
  3. 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.”

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Etymology

From rough + -ly.

Anagrams of roughly

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