1. roughly

adverb. ['ˈrʌfli'] (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct.

Rhymes with Roughly

• gruffly
• muffley

Sentences with roughly

1. Adverb
They should be square in shape and roughly the size of a quarter.

Quotes about roughly

1. But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round them, and the people who fall into them and get out and know they're there because of that. They both come to the same conclusions but they don't have quite the same point of view.
- Margery Allingham, Dancers in Mourning

2. roughly

adverb. ['ˈrʌfli'] with roughness or violence (rough' is an informal variant forroughly').

3. roughly

adverb. ['ˈrʌfli'] with rough motion as over a rough surface.