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roughliest

roughliest is the superlative form of roughly.

Meaning of roughly

Adverb

roughly (comparative roughlier or more roughly, superlative roughliest or most roughly)

  1. 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.1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 60
  2. Unevenly or irregularly.
  3. 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.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 259

Questions about roughliest

What is roughliest the superlative form of?
Roughliest is the superlative form of roughly.

Words near roughliest in the dictionary

  1. roughishness
  2. Roughit
  3. roughleg
  4. roughlegs
  5. roughlier
  6. roughliest
  7. roughly
  8. roughly speaking
  9. roughneck
  10. roughnecked
  11. roughnecking

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