Gross

//ɡɹoʊs// adj, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Highly or conspicuously offensive.

    "a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence; a gross insult"

  2. 2
    Of an amount: excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.

    "gross domestic product; gross income; gross weight"

  3. 3
    Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.

    "gross anatomy"

  4. 4
    Causing disgust. Australia, Canada, US, informal

    "I threw up all over the bed. It was totally gross."

  5. 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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  1. 6
    Lacking refinement; not of high quality.

    "The flowers of Rubens are gross and rude […]"

  2. 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."

  3. 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."

  4. 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,"

  5. 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."

  6. 11
    Easy to perceive. obsolete

    "[…] though the truth of it stands off as gross / As black and white, my eye will scarcely see it."

Adjective
  1. 1
    conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible wordnet
  2. 2
    conspicuously and tastelessly indecent wordnet
  3. 3
    repellently fat wordnet
  4. 4
    lacking fine distinctions or detail wordnet
  5. 5
    without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers wordnet
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  1. 6
    before any deductions wordnet
  2. 7
    visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features) wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 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. 2
    A village in Nebraska, having a population of two as of 2010.
Noun
  1. 1
    Twelve dozen = 144. countable, uncountable

    "We need to order three gross of torx screws for next week."

  2. 2
    the entire amount of income before any deductions are made wordnet
  3. 3
    The total amount (of goods, money, etc) before taxes, expenses, exceptions, tares, or similar deductions are subtracted. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    twelve dozen wordnet
  5. 5
    The bulk; the mass. countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To earn money, not including expenses. transitive

    "The movie grossed three million on the first weekend."

  2. 2
    earn before taxes, expenses, etc. wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

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”).

Etymology 3

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”).

Etymology 4

* 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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