Associations to the word «Roughly»
Noun
- Downtown
- Longitude
- Boundary
- Ave
- Easterly
- Bulge
- Nw
- Atoll
- Parallel
- Avenue
- Width
- Alignment
- Shoreline
- Wide
- Degenerate
- Turnpike
- Gao
- Confluence
- Mph
- Massif
- Inflorescence
- Crater
- Tonne
- Mi
- Correlate
- Parkway
- Peso
- Moselle
- Boulevard
- Wei
- Millimeter
- Acre
- Hz
- Utc
- Liang
- Mile
- Asteroid
- Pu
- Southeast
- Meter
- Stretch
- Hispanic
- Covering
- Measuring
- Watershed
- Severn
- Basin
- Sui
- Sw
- Magnitude
- Plateau
- Headwater
Adjective
Verb
Wiktionary
ROUGHLY, adverb. In a rough manner.
ROUGHLY, adverb. Unevenly; harshly; rudely; severely; austerely.
ROUGHLY, adverb. Imprecise but close to in quantity or amount; approximately.
Dictionary definition
ROUGHLY, 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 hundred pounds"; "roughly $3,000"; "holds 3 gallons, more or less"; "20 or so people were at the party".
ROUGHLY, adverb. With roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly'); "he was pushed roughly aside"; "they treated him rough".
ROUGHLY, adverb. With rough motion as over a rough surface; "ride rough".
Wise words
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say
"infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no
word left when you want to talk about something really
infinite.