gross

Meaning

Adj

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

Noun

1. Twelve dozen = 144.
2. The total nominal earnings or amount, before taxes, expenses, exceptions or similar are deducted. That which remains after all deductions is called net.
3. The bulk, the mass, the masses.

Verb

To earn money, not including expenses.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɹəʊs/

Etymology

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.