roughly

adv
/ˈɹʌf.li/UK

Etymology

From rough + -ly.

  1. inherited from *rūhaz
  2. inherited from rūg
  3. inherited from rough
  4. suffixed as roughly — “rough + ly

Definitions

  1. In a rough manner

    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. Unevenly or irregularly.

  3. Without precision or exactness

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at roughly. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at roughly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at roughly

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA