Dictionary Definition
gross adj
1 before any deductions; "gross income" [ant:
net]
2 visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks
and anatomical features) [syn: megascopic]
3 of general aspects or broad distinctions; "the
gross details of the structure appear reasonable"
4 repellently fat; "a bald porcine old man" [syn:
porcine]
5 conspicuously and outrageously bad or
reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant
violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude";
"gross injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: crying(a),
egregious, flagrant, glaring, rank]
6 without qualification; used informally as
(often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete
coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross
negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding
mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter
nonsense" [syn: arrant(a),
complete(a),
consummate(a),
double-dyed(a),
everlasting(a),
gross(a),
perfect(a),
pure(a),
sodding(a),
stark(a),
staring(a),
thoroughgoing(a),
utter(a)]
7 conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse
language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of
humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full
of language so vulgar it should have been edited" [syn: coarse, crude, earthy, vulgar]
Noun
1 twelve dozen [syn: 144]
2 the entire amount of income before any
deductions are made [syn: revenue, receipts] v : earn before
taxes, expenses, etc.
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -əʊs
Adjective
- Disgusting.
- Coarse, rude, vulgar, obscene, or impure.
- But man to know God is a difficulty, except by a mean he himself inure, which is to know God’s creatures that be: at first them that be of the grossest nature, and then [...] them that be more pure. — 1874: Dodsley et al., A Select Collection of Old English Plays
- Great, large, palpable, bulky, or fat.
- Great, serious, flagrant, or shameful
- a gross mistake
- gross injustice
- gross negligence
- gross injustice
- a gross mistake
- the whole amount; entire; total before any deductions.
- Dull.
Synonyms
Translations
disgusting
coarse, rude, obscene
- Finnish: karkea, rahvaanomainen
- German: grob, unanständig
serious, flagrant, shameful
dull
Noun
Translations
total earnings or amount
- Finnish: bruttotulo, bruttoansio, bruttomyynti, bruttomäärä
- Spanish: bruto
- Swedish: brutto
Verb
- To earn money, not including expenses.
- The movie grossed three million on the first weekend.
See also
Swedish
Noun
grossExtensive Definition
Gross may refer to:
- Gross (economics), before deductions (brutto)
- Gross (unit), a counting unit equal to 144
- Gross examination, in anatomical pathology, identification of disease with the naked eye
- Gross realm, in mysticism, the physical realm
- "Gross", a slang term meaning "disgusting" or "grotesque"
- Gross, Nebraska, a US village
- Gross!, a television show on Discovery Channel
People with the surname Gross:
See also
- Gross indecency, in law, flagrant indecency
- Gross negligence, in law, flagrant negligence
- Grosz
- Gross out
- Gross-out film
gross in Danish: gros
gross in German: Groß
gross in French: gross
gross in Hebrew: גרוס
gross in Japanese: グロス
gross in Polish: gros
gross in Russian: Гросс
gross in Slovenian: gros
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Adamic,
Boeotian, C, Circean, Doric, Rabelaisian, abhorrent, abject, abominable, absolute, adipose, afford, aggregate, all, all-embracing, all-inclusive,
animal, animalistic, arrant, asinine, atrocious, avails, awful, barbaric, barbarous, barnyard, base, bawdy, be-all and end-all,
beastlike, beastly, beef-brained,
beef-witted, beefy,
beggarly, below
contempt, beneath contempt, bestial, bicentenary, bicentennial, big, big-bellied, blameworthy, blatant, bloated, blockish, blowzy, bodily, bosomy, bovine, box office, brawny, bring in, broad, broad-bodied, brutal, brute, brutish, bulky, bullnecked, burly, buxom, cacophonous, capital, capital gains,
capitalize on, carnal,
carnal-minded, cash in on, cental, centare, centenarian, centenary, centennial, centennium, centigram, centimeter, centipede, centistere, centred, centref, centrev, centumvir, centumvirate, centurion, century, cheesy, chubby, chumpish, chunky, classical, clean up, cleanup, clear, clear profit, cloddish, clumsy, coarse, coarse-grained, coin
money, commercialize, commissions, complete, comprehensive, consummate, contemptible, corporeal, corpulent, cowish, crass, credit, credits, cross-grained, crude, crummy, cumbersome, cwt, damned, debased, decided, definitive, degraded, dense, deplorable, depraved, despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disgusting, disposable
income, distended,
dividend, dividends, doggerel, doltish, downright, dreadful, dullard, dumb, dumpy, duncical, duncish, dysphemistic, earn, earned income, earnings, earthy, egregious, enormous, entire, entirety, evident, excessive, execrable, exhaustive, exorbitant, extreme, exuberant, fallen, fat, fattish, fetid, filthy, filthy lucre, flagrant, fleshly, fleshy, flourishing, forbidding, foul, frank, full, full-bodied, fulsome, gain, gain by, gains, gate, gate receipts, gaudy, get, gettings, glaring, gleanings, graceless, grained, grainy, granular, granulated, grave, great, grievous, gritty, gross income, gross
profit, gross receipts, gutter, harsh, hateful, heavy, heavyset, hecatomb, hefty, heinous, hippy, hoard, holistic, horrible, horrid, hundred, hundredweight, ignoble, immoderate, impenetrable, imposing, improper, impure, in bad taste, inappropriate, inclusive, income, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, ineducable, inelegant, infamous, infelicitous, inordinate, intake, integral, integrated, interest, intolerable, jungled, jungly, killing, klutzy, lamentable, lapsed, large, lewd, little, loathsome, long hundred,
loud, lousy, low, low-down, lucre, lumpen, lumpish, lush, lusty, luxuriant, make, make a killing, make money,
make money by, makings,
malodorous, mangy, manifest, massive, material, materialistic, mean, measly, meaty, mephitic, meretricious, miasmal, miasmic, miserable, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, neat profit,
nefarious, net, net income, net profit, net
receipts, noisome,
nonspiritual,
notorious, noxious, oafish, obese, objectionable, objective, obnoxious, obscene, obvious, odious, offensive, omnibus, one, one C, one and indivisible,
opaque, orgiastic, out-and-out,
outlandish, output, outrageous, outright, overall, overgrown, overrun, overweight, paltry, paper profits, paunchy, pay, pay off, pelf, percentage, perfect, perk, perks, perquisite, petty, phenomenal, physical, pickings, pitiable, pitiful, plain, plump, podgy, poky, ponderous, poor, pornographic, portly, positive, postlapsarian, potbellied, precious, proceeds, produce, profit, profits, profound, pronounced, proper, pudgy, puffy, pursy, rake-off, rank, raw, realize, realize on, rebarbative, receipt, receipts, receivables, regrettable, regular, repellent, reprehensible, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, return, returns, revenue, revolting, ribald, riotous, roly-poly, rotten, rotund, rough, royalties, rude, sad, scabby, scandalous, scatological, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, sensible, sensual, sesquicentenary,
sesquicentennial,
shabby, shameful, shattering, shocking, shoddy, sickening, small, smutty, sordid, sottish, squalid, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stark, stark-staring, stinking, stocky, store, stout, strapping, stupid, substantial, sum, sum total, superlative, surpassing, swinish, swollen, take, take in, take-in, takings, tangible, tasteless, tercentenary, tercentennial, terrible, the veriest, thick, thick-bodied, thickset, thorough, thoroughgoing,
three-dimensional, too bad, top-heavy, total, totality, tote, tubby, turn a penny, turn to
account, turn to profit, unbearable, unclean, unconscionable, uncourtly, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, undeniable, undignified, unearned
income, unequivocal,
uneuphonious,
unfelicitous,
ungraceful, universal, unmentionable, unmitigated, unpolished, unqualified, unrefined, unrelieved, unseemly, unsophisticated,
unspiritual,
unspoiled, unteachable, unweeded, unwieldy, utter, vile, villainous, viscous, vulgar, wealth, weed-choked, weed-ridden,
weedy, weighty, well-fed, whole, winnings, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, wrongheaded, yield