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Roughly

adv

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 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. 2
    Unevenly or irregularly.
  3. 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. 1
    (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct wordnet
  2. 2
    with rough motion as over a rough surface wordnet
  3. 3
    with roughness or violence (‘rough’ is an informal variant for ‘roughly’) wordnet

Etymology

From rough + -ly.

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