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grosso modo

Portuguese, adverb

grosso modo is spelled G-R-O-S-S-O-M-O-D-O (10 letters). Grosso modo is a Portuguese adverb meaning “roughly, circa or approximately” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does grosso modo mean in English?

adverb

  1. 1

    roughly, circa or approximately

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

phrase: 1. de um modo geral; aproximadamente

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

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