Gross meaning
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
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
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
A group of 144 items; 12 dozen.
noun
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So obvious or conspicuous as to cause or heighten offense.
Gross injustice.
adjective
The entire body or amount, as of income, before necessary deductions have been made.
noun
To earn as a total income or profit before deductions.
The store grossed $10,000 last month.
verb
Big or fat and coarse-looking; corpulent; obese.
adjective
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Glaring; flagrant; very bad.
A gross miscalculation.
adjective
Lacking in refinement or perception; insensitive; dull.
adjective
Vulgar; obscene; coarse.
Gross language.
adjective
Unpleasant, disgusting, offensive, etc.
adjective
With no deductions; total; entire.
Gross income.
adjective
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The total amount of something before various factors deduct from the total. For example, gross revenue, gross sales, and gross income.
Evident; obvious.
adjective
Overall total, as of income, before deductions are taken.
noun
Twelve dozen.
noun
To earn (a specified total amount) before expenses are deducted.
verb
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Not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.
adjective
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To earn money, not including expenses.
The movie grossed three million on the first weekend.
verb
gross out
- To disgust, shock, offend, etc.
idiom
in the gross
- In bulk; as a whole.
- Wholesale.
idiom
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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