roughly
adv/ˈɹʌf.li/UK
Etymology
Definitions
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.
Unevenly or irregularly.
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
Derived
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.
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.
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