Also means
fat
Usage Note
Gros (feminine grosse) can mean large in size or fat when applied to people — the latter can be blunt in French, similar to English. The phrase en gros means 'wholesale' or 'broadly speaking.' Grosso modo is a French adverbial phrase (from Italian/Latin) meaning 'roughly, approximately.'
Examples
"C'est un gros problème."
Natural Translation
It is a big problem.
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