Gross

Adjective

 * 1) Disgusting.
 * 2) Coarse, rude, vulgar, obscene, or impure.
 * But man to know God is a difficulty, except by a mean he himself inure, which is to know God’s creatures that be: at first them that be of the grossest nature, and then [...] them that be more pure. — 1874: Dodsley et al., A Select Collection of Old English Plays
 * 1) Great, large, palpable, bulky, or fat.
 * 2) Great, serious, flagrant, or shameful
 * a gross mistake
 * gross injustice
 * gross negligence
 * 1) the whole amount; entire; total before any deductions.
 * gross domestic product
 * 1) Dull.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:obese

Antonyms

 * fine
 * net

Noun

 * 1) A unit of amount = twelve dozen = 144 pcs.
 * 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

 * 1) To earn money, not including expenses.
 * The movie grossed three million on the first weekend.

Related terms

 * engross
 * grocer, grocery, groceries

Derived terms

 * gross receipts
 * gross weight
 * gross income

Thesaurus
Adamic, Boeotian, C, Circean, Doric, Rabelaisian, abhorrent, abject, abominable, absolute, adipose, afford, aggregate, all, all-embracing, all-inclusive, animal, animalistic, arrant, asinine, atrocious, avails, awful, barbaric, barbarous, barnyard, base, bawdy, be-all and end-all, beastlike, beastly, beef-brained, beef-witted, beefy, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt, bestial, bicentenary, bicentennial, big, big-bellied, blameworthy, blatant, bloated, blockish, blowzy, bodily, bosomy, bovine, box office, brawny, bring in, broad, broad-bodied, brutal, brute, brutish, bulky, bullnecked, burly, buxom, cacophonous, capital, capital gains, capitalize on, carnal, carnal-minded, cash in on, cental, centare, centenarian, centenary, centennial, centennium, centigram, centimeter, centipede, centistere, centred, centref, centrev, centumvir, centumvirate, centurion, century, cheesy, chubby, chumpish, chunky, classical, clean up, cleanup, clear, clear profit, cloddish, clumsy, coarse, coarse-grained, coin money, commercialize, commissions, complete, comprehensive, consummate, contemptible, corporeal, corpulent, cowish, crass, credit, credits, cross-grained, crude, crummy, cumbersome, cwt, damned, debased, decided, definitive, degraded, dense, deplorable, depraved, despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disgusting, disposable income, distended, dividend, dividends, doggerel, doltish, downright, dreadful, dullard, dumb, dumpy, duncical, duncish, dysphemistic, earn, earned income, earnings, earthy, egregious, enormous, entire, entirety, evident, excessive, execrable, exhaustive, exorbitant, extreme, exuberant, fallen, fat, fattish, fetid, filthy, filthy lucre, flagrant, fleshly, fleshy, flourishing, forbidding, foul, frank, full, full-bodied, fulsome, gain, gain by, gains, gate, gate receipts, gaudy, get, gettings, glaring, gleanings, graceless, grained, grainy, granular, granulated, grave, great, grievous, gritty, gross income, gross profit, gross receipts, gutter, harsh, hateful, heavy, heavyset, hecatomb, hefty, heinous, hippy, hoard, holistic, horrible, horrid, hundred, hundredweight, ignoble, immoderate, impenetrable, imposing, improper, impure, in bad taste, inappropriate, inclusive, income, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, ineducable, inelegant, infamous, infelicitous, inordinate, intake, integral, integrated, interest, intolerable, jungled, jungly, killing, klutzy, lamentable, lapsed, large, lewd, little, loathsome, long hundred, loud, lousy, low, low-down, lucre, lumpen, lumpish, lush, lusty, luxuriant, make, make a killing, make money, make money by, makings, malodorous, mangy, manifest, massive, material, materialistic, mean, measly, meaty, mephitic, meretricious, miasmal, miasmic, miserable, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, neat profit, nefarious, net, net income, net profit, net receipts, noisome, nonspiritual, notorious, noxious, oafish, obese, objectionable, objective, obnoxious, obscene, obvious, odious, offensive, omnibus, one, one C, one and indivisible, opaque, orgiastic, out-and-out, outlandish, output, outrageous, outright, overall, overgrown, overrun, overweight, paltry, paper profits, paunchy, pay, pay off, pelf, percentage, perfect, perk, perks, perquisite, petty, phenomenal, physical, pickings, pitiable, pitiful, plain, plump, podgy, poky, ponderous, poor, pornographic, portly, positive, postlapsarian, potbellied, precious, proceeds, produce, profit, profits, profound, pronounced, proper, pudgy, puffy, pursy, rake-off, rank, raw, realize, realize on, rebarbative, receipt, receipts, receivables, regrettable, regular, repellent, reprehensible, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, return, returns, revenue, revolting, ribald, riotous, roly-poly, rotten, rotund, rough, royalties, rude, sad, scabby, scandalous, scatological, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, sensible, sensual, sesquicentenary, sesquicentennial, shabby, shameful, shattering, shocking, shoddy, sickening, small, smutty, sordid, sottish, squalid, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stark, stark-staring, stinking, stocky, store, stout, strapping, stupid, substantial, sum, sum total, superlative, surpassing, swinish, swollen, take, take in, take-in, takings, tangible, tasteless, tercentenary, tercentennial, terrible, the veriest, thick, thick-bodied, thickset, thorough, thoroughgoing, three-dimensional, too bad, top-heavy, total, totality, tote, tubby, turn a penny, turn to account, turn to profit, unbearable, unclean, unconscionable, uncourtly, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, undeniable, undignified, unearned income, unequivocal, uneuphonious, unfelicitous, ungraceful, universal, unmentionable, unmitigated, unpolished, unqualified, unrefined, unrelieved, unseemly, unsophisticated, unspiritual, unspoiled, unteachable, unweeded, unwieldy, utter, vile, villainous, viscous, vulgar, wealth, weed-choked, weed-ridden, weedy, weighty, well-fed, whole, winnings, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, wrongheaded, yield

Etymology
From gross:, from  gros:, from  grossus:, and  grossus:, of  origin, from  groz:, from, from. Cognate with dialectal grôt:, groût:, and grô:,  groot:,  groß:,  great:. More at.

Pronunciation




Adjective

 * Dutch: walgelijk
 * Finnish: inhottava, iljettävä, ällöttävä, vastenmielinen
 * German: Ekel erregend
 * Italian: ripugnante, osceno, volgare, impuro, grossolano, rozzo
 * Norwegian: ekkel


 * Portuguese:
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 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: äcklig


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 * Italian: osceno, volgare, rude, crudele
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 * Italian: grossolano, grave, macroscopico, indecente, imperdonabile
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 * Finnish: brutto-, kokonais-, nimellis-
 * German: brutto, Brutto-
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: lordo, complessivo
 * Portuguese: bruto


 * Romanian:
 * Russian: брутто
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 * Finnish: tympeä, inha


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 * : äcklig äckligt  (1), grov  grovt  (3)

Noun

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 * Finnish: suurin osa, enemmistö

Noun

 * 1) a gross, twelve dozen (144)

Related terms

 * grosshandlare