Roughly vs Sometimes - What's the difference?
roughly | sometimes |
In a rough manner.
Unevenly; harshly; rudely; severely; austerely.
Imprecise but close to in quantity or amount; approximately.
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, title= On certain occasions, or in certain circumstances, but not always.
* (Jeremy Taylor)
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, passage=We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.}}
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (obsolete) On a certain occasion in the past; once.
* (William Shakespeare)
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*, II.3.7:
(obsolete) former; sometime
As adverbs the difference between roughly and sometimes
is that roughly is in a rough manner while sometimes is on certain occasions, or in certain circumstances, but not always.As an adjective sometimes is
(obsolete) former; sometime.roughly
English
Adverb
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A deadly disease could travel at jet speed around the world. How do we stop it in time?, passage=Of the roughly 400 emerging infectious diseases that have been identified since 1940, more than 60% are zoonotic: ie they came from animals. Throughout history this has been common.}}
Synonyms
* approximately, around, near, nearly, almost, about, loosely, circasometimes
English
Adverb
(-)- It is good that we sometimes be contradicted.
Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
- That fair and warlike form / In which the majesty of buried Denmark / Did sometimes march.
- For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
- they detract, scoffe, and raile (saith one), and bark at me on every side; but I, like that Albanian dog sometimes given to Alexander for a present, vindico me ab illis solo contemptu ; I lie still, and sleep, vindicate myself by contempt alone.
Synonyms
* at one time or another * at times * every so often * from time to time * occasionally * once in a whileSee also
* sometimeAdjective
(-)- Thy sometimes brother's wife. — Shakespeare.