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Gross
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- 1 Highly or conspicuously offensive.
"a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence; a gross insult"
- 2 Of an amount: excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.
"gross domestic product; gross income; gross weight"
- 3 Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.
"gross anatomy"
- 4 Causing disgust. Australia, Canada, US, informal
"I threw up all over the bed. It was totally gross."
- 5 Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.
"Pog. Forsooth my Maister said that hee loved her almost as well as hee loved parmasent, and swore […] that shee wanted such a Nose as his was, to be as pretty a young woeman, as was any in Parma. Do. Oh grose!"
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- 6 Lacking refinement; not of high quality.
"The flowers of Rubens are gross and rude […]"
- 7 Dense, heavy.
"Thy spirit ere our fatal loss / Did ever rise from high to higher; / As mounts the heavenward altar-fire, / As flies the lighter thro’ the gross."
- 8 Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.
"Kitty noticed that her sister’s pregnancy had blunted her features and in her black dress she looked gross and blousy."
- 9 Difficult or impossible to see through. poetic
"Couragious Lancaster, imbrace thy king, / And as grosse vapours perish by the sunne, / Euen so let hatred with thy soueraigne smile,"
- 10 Not sensitive in perception or feeling. archaic
"For he is groſſe and like the maſſie earth, / That mooues not vpwards, nor by princely deeds / Doth meane to ſoare aboue the highest ſort."
- 11 Easy to perceive. obsolete
"[…] though the truth of it stands off as gross / As black and white, my eye will scarcely see it."
- 1 conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible wordnet
- 2 conspicuously and tastelessly indecent wordnet
- 3 repellently fat wordnet
- 4 lacking fine distinctions or detail wordnet
- 5 without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers wordnet
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- 6 before any deductions wordnet
- 7 visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features) wordnet
- 1 A surname from Middle English, originally a nickname for a big man, from Middle English gros (“large”).
"This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies, in today for Terry Gross."
- 2 A village in Nebraska, having a population of two as of 2010.
- 1 Twelve dozen = 144. countable, uncountable
"We need to order three gross of torx screws for next week."
- 2 the entire amount of income before any deductions are made wordnet
- 3 The total amount (of goods, money, etc) before taxes, expenses, exceptions, tares, or similar deductions are subtracted. countable, uncountable
- 4 twelve dozen wordnet
- 5 The bulk; the mass. countable, uncountable
- 1 To earn money, not including expenses. transitive
"The movie grossed three million on the first weekend."
- 2 earn before taxes, expenses, etc. wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English gros (“large, thick, full-bodied; coarse, unrefined, simple”), from Old French gros, from Latin grossus (“big, fat, thick”, in Late Latin also “coarse, rough”), of uncertain further origin but perhaps related to Proto-Celtic *brassos (“great, violent”).
From Middle English gros (“large, thick, full-bodied; coarse, unrefined, simple”), from Old French gros, from Latin grossus (“big, fat, thick”, in Late Latin also “coarse, rough”), of uncertain further origin but perhaps related to Proto-Celtic *brassos (“great, violent”).
From Middle English gros (“large, thick, full-bodied; coarse, unrefined, simple”), from Old French gros, from Latin grossus (“big, fat, thick”, in Late Latin also “coarse, rough”), of uncertain further origin but perhaps related to Proto-Celtic *brassos (“great, violent”).
* As a Jewish and German surname, from groß (“great, large”). The Jewish surname was influenced by Hebrew גדול (“big, large”), hence the Hebraicization Gadol. * As an English surname, from the noun and adjective gross, a doublet of above. The village is named after Ben Gross, who kept a general store there.
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