roughly

Adverb

Meaning

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

about some around approximately rough more or less close to just about or so near close coarsely curtly generally almost
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Antonyms

spang just right bang plumb immediately
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Phrases with the word

roughly measured treat roughly roughly disciplined handle roughly say roughly calculate roughly

Anagrams

Loughry

Examples

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong. John Maynard Keynes

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. Giorgio Vasari

Roughly speaking, rationality is concerned with the selection of preferred behavior alternatives in terms of some system of values, whereby the consequences of behavior can be evaluated. Herbert Simon

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced. Victor Hugo

Making eye contact during rough sex is roughly the equivalent of trying to read Dostoyevsky on a rollercoaster. Jenna Jameson

A naughty child must be roughly rocked. Danish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

roughishness roughleaf ricegrass roughleg roughly disciplined roughly five milliliters roughly measured