Adjective (comparative grosser or more gross, superlative grossest or most gross)
- (US, slang) Disgusting.
- Coarse, rude, vulgar, obscene, or impure.
- Great, large, bulky, or fat.
- Great, serious, flagrant, or shameful.
- a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence
- The whole amount; entire; total before any deductions.
- gross domestic product
- Not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.
Noun (plural gross or grosses)
- Twelve dozen = 144.
- The total nominal earnings or amount, before taxes, expenses, exceptions or similar are deducted. That which remains after all deductions is called net.
- The bulk, the mass, the masses.
Verb (third-person singular simple present grosses, present participle grossing, simple past and past participle grossed)
- To earn money, not including expenses.
- The movie grossed three million on the first weekend.
Origin 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.