Closely and Roughly

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Closely adverb - To a close degree.

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Roughly and closely are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Roughly" instead an adverb "Closely".

Nearby Words: close, closeness, closer

Roughly adverb - Close to but not exactly.

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Closely and roughly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Closely" instead an adverb "Roughly".

Nearby Words: rough, roughage

Even Across the Universe, which generally stuck pretty closely to the Beatles' arrangements of songs, made that one roughly 50/50 Beatles/Cocker.

Source: Covered Up
Never mind that, if the legendary hero lived twenty generations ago, he had roughly a million contemporaries who are just as closely related to the modern-day version as he.

Source: Single Line of Descent
It is revealed that all the various human races of the Milky Way galaxy - such as Terrans and Arkonides (who had founded a short-lived colony called Atlantis on Earth roughly 8,000 B.C.) - are closely related and technically part of one species.

Source: Literature / Perry Rhodan

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