Also means
crude
Usage Note
Grossolano agrees in gender and number: un errore grossolano, una bugia grossolana. It describes both physical coarseness (rough texture) and figurative coarseness (crude behaviour, a glaring mistake). Do not confuse with grosso (big/large), of which it is a derivative with a distinctly negative connotation.
Examples
"Ha commesso un errore grossolano."
Natural Translation
He made a coarse mistake.
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