An adverb in Italian that means more or less, approximately or roughly is grossomodo. It may also be written as two words – grosso modo – with grosso meaning large and modo meaning way.
Siamo grossomodo a metà strada.
We’re approximately halfway there.
Grossomodo ci saranno quaranta persone questa sera.
There will be more or less forty people this evening.
Some possible synonyms for this word include:
- più o meno = more or less
- approssimativamente = approximately
- pressappoco = about, roughly
- suppergiù = roughly, more or less (su per giù literally means up by down)
- circa = about, around
- all’incirca = somewhere around
- a occhio e croce = more or less (lit: at eye and cross)
Heather Broster is a graduate with honours in linguistics from the University of Western Ontario. She is an aspiring polyglot, proficient in English and Italian, as well as Japanese, Welsh, and French to varying degrees of fluency. Originally from Toronto, Heather has resided in various countries, notably Italy for a period of six years. Her primary focus lies in the fields of language acquisition, education, and bilingual instruction.
