Dictionary
gross
Meaning
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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.
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɡɹəʊs/
Cognate with French
grossier
Cognate with Catalan
gros
Cognate with Dutch
groot
Cognate with German
groß
Cognate with English
great
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