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Roughly vs Recklessly - What's the difference?

roughly | recklessly |

As adverbs the difference between roughly and recklessly

is that roughly is in a rough manner while recklessly is in a reckless manner, without regard for cost or consequence.

roughly

English

Adverb

(en-adv)
  • In a rough manner.
  • Unevenly; harshly; rudely; severely; austerely.
  • Imprecise but close to in quantity or amount; approximately.
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    Synonyms

    * approximately, around, near, nearly, almost, about, loosely, circa

    recklessly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a reckless manner, without regard for cost or consequence.
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  • *:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
  • With contempt for the rights, feelings, or well-being of others.