roughlyadverb
uk/ˈrʌf.li/us/ˈrʌf.li/roughly adverb (NOT EXACTLY)
B2 approximately:
There has been an increase of roughly 2.25 million.
Roughly speaking, it's 2.25 million.
We have roughly similar tastes/roughly the same tastes.
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- Chop up the onions and carrots roughly.
- One box may look bigger than the other, but in fact they are roughly equal in volume.
- The two scientists both made the same discovery independently, at roughly the same time.
- The money I've saved corresponds roughly to the amount I need for my course.
- The prices were very roughly calculated - it looked as though he'd done them on the back of an envelope.
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Approximate
- (a) sort of idiom
- -ish
- about
- approx
- approximate
- approximately
- effect
- in the vicinity of idiom
- loosely
- maybe
- more
- more or less idiom
- round
- rule
- sense
- something
- something like 96 percent, half, etc. idiom
- somewhere
- sort
- sorta
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roughly adverb (NOT EVENLY)
C2 without taking a lot of care to make something perfect:
Roughly chop the tomatoes.
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Crude and basic
- 101
- at bottom idiom
- backward
- bare
- basic
- bottom
- crude
- homespun
- low-tech
- Mickey Mouse
- primal
- primordial
- rough
- rude
- simple
- skeletal
- stone-age
- two-dimensional
- vanilla
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roughly adverb (VIOLENTLY)
C2 in a violent or angry way:
He pushed the children roughly to one side.
"And what's going on here?" he said roughly.
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Violent or aggressive
- aggressive
- aggro
- all hell breaks loose idiom
- atrocious
- atrocity
- confrontation
- desperate
- flex your muscles idiom
- forced
- forcible
- frenzied
- gay-basher
- hostile
- sabre-rattling
- savage
- savagely
- savagery
- steep
- steeped in blood idiom
- strong-arm
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