roughly

Etymology

rough + -ly

adv

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
   Of the roughly 400 emerging infectious diseases that have been identified since 1940, more than 60% are zoonotic: ie they came from animals. Throughout history this has been common. 2013-12-06, Alok Jha, “A deadly disease could travel at jet speed around the world. How do we stop it in time?”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 26, page 27