suurin piirtein

See also: suurinpiirtein

Finnish

Etymology

Instructive plural of suuri (“large”) + piirre (“feature, trait”); literally, “by the large features”.

Adverb

suurin piirtein (not comparable)

  1. roughly, approximately, more or less, by and large

Further reading

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