gross

Meaning

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.

total

coarse

round hand

the whole

total amount

unwieldy

bad feeling

be disgusting

bowelless

feeling bad

overweight

scurrile

overall weight

144

enormous

full weight

gross load

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɹəʊs/

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.