Hypertext Webster Gateway: "roughly"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Roughly \Rough"ly\, adv.
In a rough manner; unevenly; harshly; rudely; severely;
austerely.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
roughly
adv 1: (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" [syn: {approximately},
{about}, {close to}, {just about}, {some}, {more or
less}, {around}, {or so}]
2: with roughness or violence; "he was pushed roughly aside";
(`rough' is informal as in "they treated him rough") [syn:
{rough}]
3: with rough motion as over a rough surface; "ride rough"
[syn: {rough}]
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.