roughly

[Rough·ly]

With rough motion as over a rough surface

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In a rough manner; unevenly; harshly; rudely; severely; austerely.

Adverb
(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 hundre

Adverb
with rough motion as over a rough surface; "ride rough"

Adverb
with roughness or violence (`rough'' is an informal variant for `roughly''); "he was pushed roughly aside"; "they treated him rough"


adv.
In a rough manner; unevenly; harshly; rudely; severely; austerely.


Roughly

Rough"ly, adv. In a rough manner; unevenly; harshly; rudely; severely; austerely.

In a rough manner; unevenly; harshly; rudely; severely; austerely.

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Usage Examples

We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.

Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot, thank goodness.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.

Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.

What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

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