English

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 are closer together have more effects in common.

1. • 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.

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology

Adverbial locution, from grossus ‎(“approximate”) + modus ‎(“way, method”).

Adverb

grosso modo

1. roughly, circa or approximately

Italian

Adverb

grosso modo

1. Alternative spelling of grossomodo

Latin

Etymology

Adverbial locution, from grossus ‎(“approximate”) + modus ‎(“way, method”).

Adverb

grossō modō

1. roughly, circa, approximately
2. coarsely