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Meaning of 'gross' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Gross [ a.]
- The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass.
2 . Gross [ sing. & pl.]
- The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens.
3 . Gross [ superl.]
- Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.
- Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.
- Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.
- Expressing, Or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure.
- Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium.
- Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence.
- Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to net.

Meaning of 'gross' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . gross [ a]
Meaning (1):
- before any deductions
Example in sentence:
  • gross income
2 . gross [ s]
Meaning (2):
- repellently fat
Example in sentence:
  • a bald porcine old man
Meaning (3):
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
Example in sentence:
  • a complete coward;
  • a consummate fool;
  • a double-dyed villain;
  • a perfect idiot;
  • a thorough nuisance;
  • a thoroughgoing villain;
  • an arrant fool;
  • gross negligence;
  • pure folly;
  • stark staring mad;
  • the unadulterated truth;
  • utter nonsense;
  • what a sodding mess
Meaning (4):
- conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
Example in sentence:
  • a crude joke;
  • a revoltingly gross expletive;
  • a vulgar gesture;
  • an earthy sense of humor;
  • coarse language;
  • crude behavior;
  • full of language so vulgar it should have been edited
Meaning (5):
- conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
Example in sentence:
  • a crying shame;
  • a glaring error;
  • an egregious lie;
  • flagrant violation of human rights;
  • gross ineptitude;
  • gross injustice;
  • rank treachery
Meaning (6):
- lacking fine distinctions or detail
Example in sentence:
  • the gross details of the structure appear reasonable

Nearby Words:

groan groaned groanful groaning groat groats grocer groceries grocery grog

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