Phrase guide

grosso modo

adv · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adv

Meaning 1

roughly, circa or approximately

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 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.
  • 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.

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History

Etymology

From Latin grossō modō.

Across languages

Translations

2 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Spanish: grosso modo — adverb
  • Spanish: a grosso modo — adverb