roughly

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approximately:

There has been an increase of roughly 2.25 million.

Roughly speaking, it's 2.25 million.

We have roughly similar tastes/roughly the same tastes.

without taking a lot of care to make something perfect:

Roughly chop the tomatoes.

in a violent or angry way:

He pushed the children roughly to one side.

"And what's going on here?" he said roughly.

violently:

He pushed the luggage roughly to the side.

approximately:

The town’s population has roughly doubled.

not exactly:

Roughly $104.8 million was spent on lottery tickets in 2006.