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. (Australia, Canada, US, 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. (poetic) Difficult or impossible to see through.
10. (archaic) Not sensitive in perception or feeling.
11. (obsolete) Easy to perceive.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Twelve dozen = 144.
2. (countable, uncountable) The total amount (of goods, money, etc) before taxes, expenses, exceptions, tares, or similar deductions are subtracted.
3. (countable, uncountable) The bulk; the mass.

Verb

To earn money, not including expenses.

Opposite of

net, microscopic, fine

Synonyms

total

coarse

vulgar

whole

aggregate

crude

big

disgusting

complete

rough

porcine

foul

crass

egregious

fat

overall

general

lowlife

large

sum

megascopic

utter

abhorrent

sum total

glaring

thick

sleazy

all

low

lousy

rude

sordid

entire

earthy

rank

nasty

obscene

crying

unrefined

flagrant

loathsome

indelicate

accursed

horrible

awful

huge

abject

course

heavy

hideous

Translations

brut

grob

grossa

lordo

grosse

grossolano

gruesa

Gros

grossier

bruto

volgare

rozzo

gros

flagrant

dick

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɹəʊs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: gross

Cognate with French: grossier

Cognate with French: -

Cognate with Catalan: gros

Cognate with Dutch: groot

Cognate with German: groß

Cognate with English: great

In summary

From Middle English gros (“large, thick, full-bodied; coarse, unrefined, simple”), from Old French gros, from Latin grossus (“big, fat, thick”, in Late Latin also “coarse, rough”), of uncertain further origin but perhaps related to Proto-Celtic *brassos (“great, violent”).