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roughly

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: roughly

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adv
with rough motion as over a rough surface
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adv
(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: roughly
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adv with rough motion as over a rough surface

Synonyms:
rough

adv with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')

“he was pushed roughly aside”
Synonyms:
rough
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adv (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct

roughly $3,000”
Synonyms:
about, approximately, around, close to, just about, more or less, or so, some
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