gross
remarkably great, big, vast in an often unpleasant way; (of behaviour) Highly or conspicuously offensive.
Adjective 4 meanings
remarkably great, big, vast in an often unpleasant way; (of behaviour) Highly or conspicuously offensive.
“a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence; a gross insult”
Excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.
“gross domestic product; gross income; gross weight”
Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.
“gross anatomy”
Causing disgust.
“I threw up all over the bed. It was totally gross.”
Noun 3 meanings
Twelve dozen = 144.
“We need to order three gross of torx screws for next week.”
The total amount (of goods, money, etc) before taxes, expenses, exceptions, tares, or similar deductions are subtracted.
The bulk; the mass.
Verb 1 meaning
To earn money, not including expenses.
“The movie grossed three million on the first weekend.”
Etymology
From Middle English gros (“large, thick, full-bodied; coarse, unrefined, simple”), from Old French gros, from Latin grossus (“big, fat, thick”, in Late Latin also “coarse, rough”), of uncertain further origin but perhaps related to Proto-Celtic *brassos (“great, violent”).
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GROSS at a glance
GROSS has 5 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (G 2 + R 1 + O 1 + S 1 + S 1) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,239 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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