roughly

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   with roughness or violence, an informal variant for 'roughly'

   They were pushed roughly aside.

2. 2
   adv

   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.

3. 3
   adv

   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.

4. 4
   adv

   (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct

5. 5
   adv

   with rough motion as over a rough surface

6. 6
   adv

   Unevenly or irregularly.

Etymology

From rough + -ly.