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Gross   /groʊs/   Listen
Gross

adjective
(compar. grosser; superl. grossest)
1.
Before any deductions.
2.
Lacking fine distinctions or detail.
3.
Repellently fat.  Synonym: porcine.
4.
Visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features).  Synonym: megascopic.
5.
Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers.  Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter.  "A complete coward" , "A consummate fool" , "A double-dyed villain" , "Gross negligence" , "A perfect idiot" , "Pure folly" , "What a sodding mess" , "Stark staring mad" , "A thoroughgoing villain" , "Utter nonsense" , "The unadulterated truth"
6.
Conspicuously and tastelessly indecent.  Synonyms: crude, earthy, vulgar.  "A crude joke" , "Crude behavior" , "An earthy sense of humor" , "A revoltingly gross expletive" , "A vulgar gesture" , "Full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"
7.
Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible.  Synonyms: crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, rank.  "An egregious lie" , "Flagrant violation of human rights" , "A glaring error" , "Gross ineptitude" , "Gross injustice" , "Rank treachery"
noun
1.
Twelve dozen.  Synonym: 144.
2.
The entire amount of income before any deductions are made.  Synonyms: receipts, revenue.
verb
1.
Earn before taxes, expenses, etc..



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"Gross" Quotes from Famous Books



... man. He concludes that the real volume of the Neanderthal brain (in this highest known specimen) is "slight in comparison with the volume of the brain lodged in the large heads of to-day," and that the "bestial or ape-like characters" of the race are not neutralised by this gross measurement. ...
— The Story of Evolution • Joseph McCabe

... enough for him—she would reserve her thoughts, wishes, every thing else, for his old rival;—every thing but what a ring, and a few words, makes his right by law, the poor husband is to leave to any old sweetheart that may come prowling round his gates! That's gross! Is ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 • Various

... and Secretary Miguel Arroyo. On the morning of the 27th, before the meeting of the commissioners, a train of wagons sent into the city to obtain supplies for the American army was met by a mob, stoned and driven away. Subsequently an apology was offered for this gross infraction of the armistice, and the wagons returned and secured ...
— General Scott • General Marcus J. Wright

... hear it, but was told about it simultaneously by Suzette, Berthe and Marthe, who informed me that it was directed against soldiery in general. His text had apparently been "Do not trust them, gentle ladies." A gross libel. I retaliated immediately by drawing a picture of him, with a girl sitting on each knee, singing "The soldiers are going, hurrah! hurrah!" (tune—"The ...
— Bullets & Billets • Bruce Bairnsfather

... a harder case? A high-spirited British youth asserts his intention of living a life of elegant leisure, and is forthwith scouted as a disgrace to the family. 'Arry sat under the gross injustice with an ...
— Demos • George Gissing


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