egregious, crying(a), flagrant, glaring, gross, rank
(adjective) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; “a crying shame”; “an egregious lie”; “flagrant violation of human rights”; “a glaring error”; “gross ineptitude”; “gross injustice”; “rank treachery”
crude, earthy, gross, vulgar
(adjective) conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; “coarse language”; “a crude joke”; “crude behavior”; “an earthy sense of humor”; “a revoltingly gross expletive”; “a vulgar gesture”; “full of language so vulgar it should have been edited”
gross, porcine
(adjective) repellently fat; “a bald porcine old man”
gross
(adjective) lacking fine distinctions or detail; “the gross details of the structure appear reasonable”
complete, arrant(a), consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, stark, staring, thorough, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated
(adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; “an arrant fool”; “a complete coward”; “a consummate fool”; “a double-dyed villain”; “gross negligence”; “a perfect idiot”; “pure folly”; “what a sodding mess”; “stark staring mad”; “a thorough nuisance”; “a thoroughgoing villain”; “utter nonsense”; “the unadulterated truth”
gross
(adjective) before any deductions; “gross income”
megascopic, gross
(adjective) visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features)
gross, revenue, receipts
(noun) the entire amount of income before any deductions are made
gross
(noun) twelve dozen
gross
(verb) earn before taxes, expenses, etc.
Source: WordNet® 3.1
The village is named after Ben Gross, who kept a general store there.
Gross
A surname, originally a nickname for a big man, from Middle English gros (“large”).
A village in Nebraska, having a population of two as of 2010.
• Sgros, Sorgs
gross (comparative grosser or more gross, superlative grossest or most gross)
(of behaviour considered to be wrong) Highly or conspicuously offensive.
Synonyms: serious, flagrant, shameful, appalling, egregious.
(of an amount) Excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.
Synonyms: whole, entire, overall, total, aggregate
Antonym: net
(science, pathology) Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.
Synonym: macroscopic
Antonym: microscopic
(slang, North America) Causing disgust.
Synonyms: gro, grody, grotty, disgusting, nasty, revolting, yucky
Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.
Synonyms: coarse, rude, vulgar, obscene, impure
(of a product) Lacking refinement; not of high quality.
Synonyms: coarse, rough, unrefined
Antonym: fine
(of a person) Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.
Synonyms: great, large, bulky, fat, obese
(archaic) Not sensitive in perception or feeling.
Synonyms: dull, witless
(now, chiefly, poetic) Difficult or impossible to see through.
Synonyms: thick, heavy
(obsolete) Easy to perceive.
Synonyms: obvious, clear
• (heavy in proportion to one's height): See also obese
gross (countable and uncountable, plural gross or grosses)
Twelve dozen = 144.
The total nominal earnings or amount, before taxes, expenses, exceptions or similar are deducted. That which remains after all deductions is called net.
The bulk, the mass, the masses.
gross (third-person singular simple present grosses, present participle grossing, simple past and past participle grossed)
(transitive) To earn money, not including expenses.
• Sgros, Sorgs
Source: Wiktionary
Gross, a. [Compar. Grosser (; superl. Grossest.] Etym: [F. gros, L. grossus, perh. fr. L. crassus thick, dense, fat, E. crass, cf. Skr. grathita tied together, wound up, hardened. Cf. Engross, Grocer, Grogram.]
1. Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large. "A gross fat man." Shak. A gross body of horse under the Duke. Milton.
2. Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.
3. Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless. Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear. Milton.
4. Expressing, Or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure. The terms which are delicate in one age become gross in the next. Macaulay.
5. Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium.
6. Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence.
7. Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to net. Gross adventure (Law) the loan of money upon bottomry, i. e., on a mortgage of a ship.
– Gross average (Law), that kind of average which falls upon the gross or entire amount of ship, cargo, and freight; -- commonly called general average. Bouvier. Burrill.
– Gross receipts, the total of the receipts, before they are diminished by any deduction, as for expenses; -- distinguished from net profits. Abbott.
– Gross weight the total weight of merchandise or goods, without deduction for tare, tret, or waste; -- distinguished from neat, or net, weight.
Gross, n. Etym: [F. gros (in sense 1), grosse (in sense 2) See Gross, a.]
1. The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass. "The gross of the enemy." Addison. For the gross of the people, they are considered as a mere herd of cattle. Burke.
2. sing. & pl.
Definition: The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens. Advowson in gross (Law), an advowson belonging to a person, and not to a manor.
– A great gross, twelve gross; one hundred and forty-four dozen.
– By the gross, by the quantity; at wholesale.
– Common in gross. (Law) See under Common, n.
– In the gross, In gross, in the bulk, or the undivided whole; all parts taken together.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
