roughtly
roughtly is the misspelling of roughly.
Meaning of roughly
Adverb
roughly (comparative roughlier or more roughly, superlative roughliest or most roughly)
- 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
- Unevenly or irregularly.
- 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
- Synonyms:
- -ish, about, all but, almost, approaching, around, by and large, circa, close, close to
Questions about roughtly
- What is roughtly the misspelling of?
- Roughtly is the misspelling of roughly.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: roughtly (page history and authors); roughly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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