roughly

Comparative

roughlier

Superlative

roughliest

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.
   • 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.

Overall

Uncommon· #2824

By learning goal

Everyday conversation

Rare

General reading & writing

Uncommon

Academic

Rare

Literature

Rare

Synonyms

• about
• approximately
• some

Word family

• rough