gross
Significat (Anglès)
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- 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.
- (informal) 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.
- (obsolete) Easy to perceive.
Sinònims
round hand
the whole
total amount
unwieldy
bad feeling
be disgusting
bowelless
feeling bad
overall weight
144
enormous
full weight
gross load
Freqüència
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/ɡɹəʊs/
Etimologia (Anglès)
In summary
From Middle English gross (“whole, entire; flagrant, monstrous”), from Old French gros (“big, thick, large, stout”), from Late Latin grossus (“thick in diameter, coarse”), and Medieval Latin grossus (“great, big”), influenced by Old High German grōz (“big, thick, coarse”), from Proto-Germanic *grautaz (“large, great, thick, coarse grained, unrefined”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to rub, to stroke, to grind”). Cognate with French grossier (“gross”). See also French dialectal grôt, groût (“large”) (Berry) and grô (“large”) (Burgundy), Catalan gros (“big”), Dutch groot (“big, large”), German groß (“large”), English great.
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