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[ adverb ] (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Synonyms about approximately more_or_less or_so close_to some around just_about Examples "lasted approximately an hour" "he's about 30 years old" "some forty people came" "weighs around a hundred pounds" "roughly $3,000" "holds 3 gallons, more or less" "20 or so people were there" Used in print (Newton Stallknecht, "Ideas and Literature," in Newton S...)An idea , let us say , may be roughly defined as a theme or topic with which our reflection may be concerned . (Ralph B. Long. The Sentence and Its Parts: A...)In the second sentence if drinking water is a gerundial clause and without drinking water is roughly equivalent in meaning to unless I drink water , there will be stronger stress on water than on drinking ; but if drinking is a gerundial noun modifying water and without drinking_water is equivalent_to without water for drinking , there will be stronger stress on drinking than on water . |
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[ adverb ] with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')
Synonyms Examples "he was pushed roughly aside" "they treated him rough" Related terms |
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[ adverb ] with rough motion as over a rough surface
Synonyms Examples "ride rough" Used in print (Joseph Chadwick, No Land Is Free....)They trailed him across the wide hallway to the parlor , four roughly garbed and tough looking men who probably had never before ventured into such a house . |
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