Roughly
adv
adv ·2 syllables ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Adverb
- 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."
Adverb
- 1 (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct wordnet
- 2 with rough motion as over a rough surface wordnet
- 3 with roughness or violence (‘rough’ is an informal variant for ‘roughly’) wordnet
Example
More examples"It was out of the ordinary for Chris to behave so roughly."
Etymology
From rough + -ly.