grosso modo

From Latin grossō modō.

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.

   • 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.

From Latin grossō modō.

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grosso modo

1. roughly, circa or approximately

• grosso-modo

From Latin grossō modō.

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁo.so mo.do/

grosso modo

1. roughly, circa, approximately

   Synonyms: à peu près, approximativement, environ

   • 1999, Anna Gavalda, “Permission”, in Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part, →ISBN:

     […] L’autre lui disait grosso modo que c’était pas la peine étant donné qu’il allait se trimballer son paquet d’emmerdements avec lui.

     […] He basically told him that there was no point since he'd just be taking all his problems with him.

grosso modo

1. Alternative form of grossomodo

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡros.soː ˈmo.doː/, [ˈɡrɔs̠ːoː ˈmɔd̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡros.so ˈmo.do/, [ˈɡrɔsːo ˈmɔːd̪o]

grossō modō (not comparable)

1. roughly, circa, approximately
2. coarsely

From Latin grossō modō.

grosso modo

1. roughly, circa or approximately

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:aproximadamente

• “grosso modo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014