Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

grosso modo

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.23 in modern English

Syllables: grosso -mo-do
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

roughly, circa or approximately

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

From Latin grossō modō.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: grossō modō

Inflected Forms

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

Questions

What does grosso modo mean?: roughly, circa or approximately
Where does grosso modo come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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