Grossness

/ˈɡɹəʊsnəs/

Synonyms for "grossness" (66 found)

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Closest matches (14)

Noun(3 words)

coarseness vulgarity commonness

animalism animalitybad tastebarbarism baseness bestiality brutality bulk cacophony carnality contrariety

Strong matches (19)

Noun(2 words)

crudeness disgust

crudity degradation density depravity depth dimness dullness dumbness earthiness enormity filth flesh frankness gaudiness harshness hebetude ignobility

Related words (33)

impoliteness impropriety impurity incivility infelicity insensitivity lethargy littleness loudness lowness mass materialism meanness obscenity opacity pettiness ponderousness repugnance ribaldry roughness

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rudeness slowness smallness squalor stupidity thickness

Noun(5 words)

indelicacy offensiveness raunch repulsiveness vulgarism

Adjective(1 words)

obscenest

Interjection(1 words)

yuck

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

5 entries

aesthetic qualitybehavioral qualityinelegance qualitysocial behavior

More specific

5 entries

crudeness disgust indelicacy ugliness vulgarity

Collocations

5 entries

grossness factorgrossness of odormoral grossnessphysical grossnesssocial grossness

Inflections

1 entries

grossnesses

Derivations

2 entries

gross grossly

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

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Now that he was doing so much else she could never have the grossness to apply for it to Sir Claude.

Source: wiktionary

He […] began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings. The clowns soon found that he did not know wheat from rye, and began to despise him; one of the boys, by pretending to show him a bird's nest, decoyed him into a ditch; […]

Source: wiktionary

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