Complete Definition of "grosso modo"

English

Etymology
Borrowed from L. grosso modo.

Adverb
en-adv

  1. (literally) In a rough way; roughly, circa or approximately.

Quotations
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.


Latin

Adjective
grosso modo

  1. Grosso modo (In a rough way, roughly, circa or approximately).

Category: Latin adverbs

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