Gross definition
So obvious or conspicuous as to cause or heighten offense.
Gross injustice.
adjective
The definition of gross is something that is foul, crude or very bad.
An example of gross is day-old vomit on the ground.
An example of gross is a person who curses every other word.
adjective
Lacking in refinement or perception; insensitive; dull.
adjective
Brutishly coarse, as in behavior; crude.
adjective
Broad; general.
The gross necessities of life.
adjective
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Big or fat and coarse-looking; corpulent; obese.
adjective
Glaring; flagrant; very bad.
A gross miscalculation.
adjective
Vulgar; obscene; coarse.
Gross language.
adjective
(slang) Unpleasant, disgusting, offensive, etc.
adjective
(archaic) Evident; obvious.
adjective
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Lacking fine distinctions or specific details.
adjective
Not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.
adjective
The entire body or amount, as of income, before necessary deductions have been made.
noun
A group of 144 items; 12 dozen.
noun
Unmitigated in any way; utter.
Gross incompetence.
adjective
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To earn as a total income or profit before deductions.
The store grossed $10,000 last month.
verb
Gross is defined as earnings before taxes and expenses, or twelve dozen.
An example of gross is the $400 dollars a person earns making $10 an hour at their full-time job for working 40 hours.
An example of a gross is 144 cupcakes.
noun
Gross means to earn a certain amount of money before expenses or taxes are taken out.
An example of gross is making $25 for giving a friend a hair cut.
verb
Overweight; corpulent.
adjective
Exclusive of deductions; total.
Gross profits.
adjective
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On a large scale; not fine or detailed.
Gross anatomical similarities; gross motor skills.
adjective
With no deductions; total; entire.
Gross income.
adjective
Lacking fineness, as in texture.
adjective
Overall total, as of income, before deductions are taken.
noun
Twelve dozen.
noun
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To earn (a specified total amount) before expenses are deducted.
verb
The total amount of something before various factors deduct from the total. For example, gross revenue, gross sales, and gross income.
To earn money, not including expenses.
The movie grossed three million on the first weekend.
verb
Disgusting or offensive.
Don't you think slugs are gross? He told a gross joke.
adjective
gross out
- to disgust, shock, offend, etc.
idiom
in the gross
- in bulk; as a whole
- wholesale
idiom
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Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
in the gross
Origin of gross
- 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
- 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.
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