gross

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adjective

The definition of gross is something that is foul, crude or very bad.
1. An example of gross is day-old vomit on the ground.
2. An example of gross is a person who curses every other word.

noun

Gross is defined as earnings before taxes and expenses, or twelve dozen.
1. An example of gross is the $400 dollars a person earns making $10 an hour at their full-time job for working 40 hours.
2. An example of a gross is 144 cupcakes.

verb

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.

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gross

big or fat and coarse-looking; corpulent; obese
glaring; flagrant; very bad: a gross miscalculation
1. lacking fineness, as in texture
2. 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 of gross

Middle English grose from Old French gros, big, thick, coarse from Late Latin grossus, thick

pl. gross′es overall total, as of income, before deductions are taken
pl. twelve dozen

Origin of gross

ME groos < OFr grosse, orig. fem. of gros

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

gross Idioms

gross out

Slang to disgust, shock, offend, etc.

in the gross

in bulk; as a whole
wholesale
also by the gross

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gross

adjective

gross·er, gross·est

a. Exclusive of deductions; total: gross profits. See Synonyms at whole.
b. Unmitigated in any way; utter: gross incompetence.
So obvious or conspicuous as to cause or heighten offense: gross injustice. See Synonyms at flagrant.
a. Brutishly coarse, as in behavior; crude: “It is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross” ( Thomas H. Huxley )
b. Disgusting or offensive: Don't you think slugs are gross? He told a gross joke.
Overweight; corpulent: “Sally is fat. She is gross. She must weigh twelve stone and more” ( Margaret Drabble )
a. On a large scale; not fine or detailed: gross anatomical similarities; gross motor skills.
b. Broad; general: the gross necessities of life.

noun

pl. gross·es The entire body or amount, as of income, before necessary deductions have been made.
pl. gross Abbr. gr. or gro. A group of 144 items; 12 dozen.

transitive verb

grossed, gross·ing, gross·es

To earn as a total income or profit before deductions: The store grossed $10,000 last month.

Phrasal Verbs: gross out Slang To fill with disgust; nauseate: “The trick in making a family film … is finding ways to interest grown-ups without boring, confusing, or grossing out the younger set” ( David Sterritt )

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

Related Forms:

gross′er
noun

gross′ly
adverb

gross′ness
noun

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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.

Antonyms

fine
(total before any deductions): net

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.