grosso modo

Definitions

roughly, circa or approximately

Equivalents

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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