Mostly and Roughly

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Mostly

Mostly adverb - For the most part.
Usage example: the weather this month has been mostly mild
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Roughly and mostly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Roughly" instead an adverb "Mostly".
Nearby Word: most

Roughly

Roughly adverb - Close to but not exactly.
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Mostly and roughly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Mostly" instead an adverb "Roughly".
Nearby Words: rough, roughage

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  • There's a racial aspect as well: if you ride a Red Line train from one end to the other (it runs north-south roughly near Lake Michigan), you will see the racial composition of the train's passengers go from mostly white to mostly black or vice versa.
    Source: Urban Segregation
  • Helmets Are Hardly Heroic While this trope was mostly averted in actual warfare, it was practically enforced in private duels and in fencing practice with foiled rapiers or smallswords from roughly the 16th-18th centuries.
    Source: Helmets Are Hardly Heroic
  • Yuugi, a much-feared Oni, mostly played around (though very roughly) with the heroines before helping them out.
    Source: Dark Is Not Evil / Video Games
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