adjective
- big or fat and coarse-looking; corpulent; burly
- glaring; flagrant; very bad: a gross miscalculation
- dense; thick
- lacking fineness, as in texture
- lacking fine distinctions or specific details
- lacking in refinement or perception; insensitive; dull
- vulgar; obscene; coarse: gross language
- Slang unpleasant, disgusting, offensive, etc.
- with no deductions; total; entire: gross income
- Archaic evident; obvious
Origin:
ME grose < OFr gros, big, thick, coarse < LL grossus, thick
noun
- pl. grosses overall total, as of income, before deductions are taken
- pl. gross twelve dozen
Origin:
ME groos < OFr grosse, orig. fem. of gros
transitive verb, intransitive verb
to earn (a specified total amount) before expenses are deducted