gross

Plural: gross, grosses

Noun

• twelve dozen
• the entire amount of income before any deductions are made
• Twelve dozen = 144.
• The total amount (of goods, money, etc) before taxes, expenses, exceptions, tares, or similar deductions are subtracted.
• The bulk; the mass.

Verb

Verb Forms: grossed, grossing, grosses

• To earn a total amount of money before deductions.
• earn before taxes, expenses, etc.
• To earn money, not including expenses.

Adjective

• Flagrant, evident, or extremely unrefined.
• before any deductions
  • "gross income"

Adjective Satellite

• lacking fine distinctions or detail
  • "the gross details of the structure appear reasonable"
• repellently fat
• visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features)
• without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
  • "gross negligence"
• conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
  • "a revoltingly gross expletive"
• conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
  • "gross ineptitude"
  • "gross injustice"

Adj

• Highly or conspicuously offensive.
• Excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.
• Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.
• Causing disgust.
• Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.
• Lacking refinement; not of high quality.
• Dense, heavy.
• Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.
• Difficult or impossible to see through.
• Not sensitive in perception or feeling.
• Easy to perceive.

Examples

• a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence; a gross insult
• gross anatomy
• gross domestic product; gross income; gross weight
• His gross error in leaving a triple word open cost him the Scrabble game.
• I threw up all over the bed. It was totally gross.
• She hoped to gross over 500 points in the final Words With Friends round.
• The movie grossed three million on the first weekend.
• We need to order three gross of torx screws for next week.

Synonyms

144, arrant, complete, consummate, crude, crying, double-dyed, earthy, egregious, everlasting, flagrant, glaring, megascopic, perfect, porcine, pure, rank, receipts, revenue, sodding, staring, stark, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter, vulgar, aggregate, appalling, bulky, clear, coarse, disgusting, dull, entire, fat, great, gro, grody, grotesque, grotty, heavy, impure, large, macroscopic, nasty, obese, obscene, obvious, overall, revolting, rough, rude, serious, shameful, thick, total, unrefined, whole, witless, yucky

Antonyms

net, fine, microscopic

Related Words

engross, grocer, groceries, grocery

Anagrams of gross