Gross Definition

grōs
grossed, grosses, grossest, grossing, grosser
adjective
grossest, grosser
Unmitigated in any way; utter.
Gross incompetence.
American Heritage
Glaring; flagrant; very bad.
A gross miscalculation.
Webster's New World
Lacking fineness, as in texture.
Webster's New World
Big or fat and coarse-looking; corpulent; obese.
Webster's New World
With no deductions; total; entire.
Gross income.
Webster's New World
noun
grosses
Overall total, as of income, before deductions are taken.
Webster's New World
A group of 144 items; 12 dozen.
American Heritage
Twelve dozen.
Webster's New World

The total nominal earnings or amount, before taxes, expenses, exceptions or similar are deducted. That which remains after all deductions is called net.

Wiktionary

The bulk, the mass, the masses.

Wiktionary
Antonyms:
verb
grossed, grosses, grossing
To earn (a specified total amount) before expenses are deducted.
Webster's New World
Antonyms:
pronoun

A surname​, originally a nickname for a big man, from Middle English gros (“large”).

Wiktionary
idiom
gross out
  • to disgust, shock, offend, etc.
Webster's New World
in the gross
  • in bulk; as a whole
  • wholesale
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Gross

Noun

Singular:
gross
Plural:
grosses

Adjective

Base Form:
gross
Comparative:
grosser
Superlative:
grossest

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Gross

Origin of Gross

  • From Middle English gross (“whole, entire", also "flagrant, monstrous”), from Old French gros (“big, thick, large, stour”), from Late Latin grossus (“thick in diameter, coarse”), and Medieval Latin grossus (“great, big”), from Old High German grōz (“big, thick, coarse”), from Proto-Germanic *grautaz (“large, great, thick, coarse grained, unrefined”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghrewə- (“to fell, put down, fall in”). Cognate with French grossier (“gross”). See also French dialectal grôt, groût (Berry, “large”), and grô (Burgundy, “large”), Dutch groot (“big, large”), German groß (“large”), English great. More at great.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English large from Old French gros from Late Latin grossus thick N., sense 2, Middle English grosse from Old French grosse (douzain) large (dozen) feminine of gros

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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