Gross
[grəʊs] or [ɡros]
Definition
(noun.) the entire amount of income before any deductions are made.
(noun.) twelve dozen.
(verb.) earn before taxes, expenses, etc..
(adj.) repellently fat; 'a bald porcine old man' .
(adj.) lacking fine distinctions or detail; 'the gross details of the structure appear reasonable' .
(adj.) before any deductions; 'gross income' .
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Definition
(superl.) Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.
(superl.) Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.
(superl.) Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.
(superl.) Expressing, Or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure.
(superl.) Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium.
(superl.) Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence.
(superl.) Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to net.
(a.) The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass.
(sing. & pl.) The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Large, big, bulky, great.[2]. Dense, thick, not attenuated.[3]. Coarse, rough, rude, unrefined, indelicate, sensual, impure, vulgar, low, broad.[4]. Enormous, flagrant, shameful, unseemly, unbecoming, outrageous.[5]. Palpable, manifest, glaring.[6]. Whole, total, entire.
n. [1]. Whole, total, aggregate, gross amount, sum total.[2]. Twelve dozen.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Entire, vulgar, vicious, impure, coarse, bloated, sensual, animal, bulk,indelicate, outrageous, unseemly, shameful
ANT:Partial, net, pure, refined
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Definition
adj. coarse: rough: dense: palpable glaring shameful: whole: coarse in mind: stupid: sensual: obscene.—n. the main bulk: the whole taken together: a great hundred—i.e. twelve dozen.—adv. Gross′ly.—n. Gross′ness.—In gross in bulk wholesale.
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Examples
- His heart tingled with the pleasing conviction that these gross eulogiums shamed Moore deeply, and made him half scorn himself and his work. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The Wilmington expedition has proven a gross and culpable failure. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The gross tonnage of ships passing through in 1898 was 12,962,632, the net tonnage 9,238,603. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Resources do not depend upon gross amounts, but upon the proportion of spendings to takings. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I should have thought it a gross violation of duty and respect. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I had worked two chairs with my knife, the sorrel nag helping me in the grosser and more laborious part. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Grosser insult was never offered to a friendly people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Miss Brooke knows that they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- If you allow yourself to doubt that my husband was Anne's father, you personally insult me in the grossest manner. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- This must be the grossest falsehood! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Without my diary, I doubt--pray let me express it in the grossest terms! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
Editor: Olivia