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grossness

Variant of gross

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
  4. lacking in refinement or perception; insensitive; dull
  5. vulgar; obscene; coarse: gross language
  6. Slang unpleasant, disgusting, offensive, etc.
  7. with no deductions; total; entire: gross income
  8. Archaic evident; obvious

noun

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

transitive verb, intransitive verb

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

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