Roughly
Roughly adverb - Close to but not exactly.
Thereabouts and roughly are semantically related in approximation topic. In some cases you can use "Thereabouts" instead an adverb "Roughly", when it comes to topics like almost.
Thereabouts
Thereabouts adverb - Near that time or date.
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Synonyms for Thereabouts
Roughly and thereabouts are semantically related in approximation topic. You can use "Roughly" instead an adverb "Thereabouts", if it concerns topics such as almost, approximately, mainly.
Nearby Word: thereabout
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- largely and roughly
- largely and thereabouts
- nearly and roughly
- nearly and thereabouts
- almost and roughly
- almost and thereabouts
- practically and roughly
- practically and thereabouts
- about and roughly
- about and thereabouts
- all but and roughly
- all but and thereabouts
- near and roughly
- near and thereabouts
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Princess Ozma of the Land of Oz, who's roughly the same age as Dorothy (ten or thereabouts), is the benevolent dictator of what is essentially an empire made of four large countries and a city-state.
Source: A Child Shall Lead Them - A Child Shall Lead Them: Princess Ozma, who's roughly the same age as Dorothy (ten or thereabouts), is the benevolent dictator of what is essentially an empire made of four large countries and a city-state.
Source: Literature / Land of Oz
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