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gross (grōs)

adjective

  1. big or fat and coarse-looking; corpulent; burly
  2. glaring; flagrant; very bad a gross miscalculation
  3. dense; thick
    1. lacking fineness, as in texture
    2. lacking fine distinctions or specific details
  5. lacking in refinement or perception; insensitive; dull
  6. vulgar; obscene; coarse gross language
  7. Slang unpleasant, disgusting, offensive, etc.
  8. with no deductions; total; entire gross income
  9. Archaic evident; obvious

Etymology: ME grose < OFr gros, big, thick, coarse < LL grossus, thick

noun

  1. pl. grosses gross′es overall total, as of income, before deductions are taken
  2. pl. gross twelve dozen

Etymology: ME groos < OFr grosse, orig. fem. of gros

transitive verb, intransitive verb

to earn (a specified total amount) before expenses are deducted

Related Forms:

gross Idioms

gross out

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Slang to disgust, shock, offend, etc.

in the gross

  1. in bulk; as a whole
  2. wholesale
    also by the gross

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Alternate definitions:

business gross definition - business

finance gross definition - finance

medical Gross definition - medical

gross Synonyms

gross

modif.

  1. Fat

    corpulent, obese, porcine; see fat 1.

  2. Obscene

    foul, offensive, indecent; see lewd 1, 2.

  3. Coarse

    crude, unrefined, crass; see coarse 2, rude 1, vulgar 1.

  4. Without deduction

    in sum, total, entire; see whole 1.

  5. Flagrant

    obvious, out-and-out, patent; see obvious 1.

  6. Disgusting

    repugnant, revolting, sickening; see offensive 2. See syn. study at coarse.


gross

n.

total, aggregate, sum total, total amount; see whole.


gross

v.

earn, bring in, take in; see earn 2.


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gross Usage Examples

Object

  • film: The highest grossing new independent film of the last four weeks is... in 1 week.

Modifying Another Word

  • nearly: Her 1993-4 tour grossed nearly $ 60m ( £ 33m ) with tickets selling even then for as much as $ 350.
  • pretty: A spokeswoman for the museum said, " Overall, we are all pretty gross.

Used with adjective complement

  • pay: Note: Interest on all Accounts of £ 50,000 or more will be paid gross.

Preposition: per

  • annum: From the 1 August 2004 this rate was increased to 4.75 % gross per annum.
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gross quotes

Next was November, he full gross and fat, As fed with lard, and that right well might seem; For, he had been a fatting hogs of late.

-Spenser, Edmund

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