adjective

1. big or fat and coarse-looking; corpulent; burly
2. glaring; flagrant; very bad a gross miscalculation
3. dense; thick
4. 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