Synonyms for roughly
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1. roughlyadverb

   Synonyms:
   approximately

2. roughlyadverb

   In a rough manner.

   Synonyms:
   approximately

3. roughlyadverb

   Unevenly; harshly; rudely; severely; austerely.

   Synonyms:
   approximately

4. roughlyadverb

   Imprecise but close to in quantity or amount; approximately.

   Synonyms:
   approximately

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. approximately, about, close to, just about, some, roughly, more or less, around, or soadverb

   (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct

   "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he's about 30 years old"; "I've had about all I can stand"; "we meet about once a month"; "some forty people came"; "weighs around a hundred pounds"; "roughly $3,000"; "holds 3 gallons, more or less"; "20 or so people were at the party"

   Synonyms:
   well-nigh, rough, virtually, somewhat, slightly, or so, just about, some, nigh, most, about, nearly, more or less, almost, near, approximately, around, close to, round

2. roughly, roughadverb

   with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')

   "he was pushed roughly aside"; "they treated him rough"

   Synonyms:
   around, some, rough, close to, more or less, about, or so, just about, approximately

3. roughly, roughadverb

   with rough motion as over a rough surface

   "ride rough"

   Synonyms:
   around, some, rough, close to, more or less, about, or so, just about, approximately

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1. List of paraphrases for "roughly":

   approximately, around, about, almost, nearly, some, virtually, broadly, coarsely, near

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1. Monday Bush:

   A Republican can't get elected president without getting roughly 40% of the Hispanic vote. Can't make the math work.

2. Daniel Getz:

   Historically we're roughly able to accept 90 % of transfer requests from our communities to bring patients in, we've struggled over the past two weeks to accept half of those patients.

3. Chief Executive Officer Stephane Richard:

   These talks are nearly completed, i think we roughly agree on the major points of this dividing up.

4. Paul Nolte:

   We're in a window right now of roughly between 2,000 and 2,050 (for the S&P) that is fairly important for the market. That's the point at which the market broke down in August. If we can hold above 2,000, that would be good thing.

5. Luke Clarke:

   We have a lot of options for them, we are proud to work with these people who need to shop for new coverage, and roughly half of the consumers are already existing customers of ours.