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grosso modo

grosso modo adverb: roughly, circa or approximately.

Adverb

grosso modo (comparative more grosso modo, superlative most grosso modo)

  1. roughly, circa or approximately
    • 1980. Henry Mehlberg, Robert Sonné Cohen. Time, Causality, and the Quantum Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of Science. p. 211.
      The fact that event B takes place in the interval separating events A and C has an invariant significance, which may be expressed grosso modo by saying that events which...
    • 1985. Edward W. Said. Orientalism Reconsidered. Cultural Critique, 1, pp. 94-95.
      Still others criticize Orientalism for falsifying the nature of Islam: these are, grosso modo, the fundamentalists.

Forms of grosso modo

comparativemore grosso modo
superlativemost grosso modo

Origin of grosso modo

From Latin grossō modō.

Questions about grosso modo

What does grosso modo mean?
Grosso modo means roughly, circa or approximately.
What part of speech is grosso modo?
Grosso modo is an adverb.

Words near grosso modo in the dictionary

  1. grossness
  2. grossnesses
  3. Grossnickle
  4. Grossnickles
  5. Grosso
  6. grosso modo
  7. grossology
  8. grossone
  9. grossones
  10. Grossos
  11. grossulaceous

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