- without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like (opposed to net): gross earnings;gross sales.
- unqualified; complete; rank: a gross scoundrel.
- flagrant and extreme: gross injustice.
- indelicate, indecent, obscene, or vulgar: gross remarks.
- lacking in refinement, good manners, education, etc.; unrefined.
- large, big, or bulky.
- extremely or excessively fat.
- of or concerning only the broadest or most general considerations, aspects, etc.
- extremely objectionable, offensive, or disgusting: He wore an outfit that was absolutely gross.
- thick; dense: gross vegetation;gross fog;gross vapors.
- a group of 12 dozen, or 144, things. Abbreviation: gro.
- total income from sales, salary, etc., before any deductions (opposed to net).
- the main body, bulk, or mass.
- to have, make, or earn as a total before any deductions, as of taxes, expenses, etc.: The company grossed over three million dollars last year.
- gross out, Slang.
- to disgust or offend, especially by crude language or behavior.
- to shock or horrify.
- U.S. sculptor and graphic artist, born in Austria.
- repellently or excessively fat or bulky
- with no deductions for expenses, tax, etc; total
- (of personal qualities, tastes, etc) conspicuously coarse or vulgar
- obviously or exceptionally culpable or wrong; flagrant
- lacking in perception, sensitivity, or discrimination
- (esp of vegetation) dense; thick; luxuriant
- coarse in texture or quality
- rude; uneducated; ignorant
- an exclamation indicating disgust
- a unit of quantity equal to 12 dozen
- plural grosses
- the entire amount
- the great majority
- to earn as total revenue, before deductions for expenses, tax, etc
