GROSS
\ɡɹˈə͡ʊs], \ɡɹˈəʊs], \ɡ_ɹ_ˈəʊ_s]\
Definitions of GROSS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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"
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twelve dozen
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of general aspects or broad distinctions; "the gross details of the structure appear reasonable"
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before any deductions; "gross income"
By Princeton University
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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"
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twelve dozen
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of general aspects or broad distinctions; "the gross details of the structure appear reasonable"
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before any deductions; "gross income"
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Grossness.
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Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.
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Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.
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Expressing, Or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure.
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Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium.
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Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence.
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The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass.
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The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens.
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Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; - opposed to net.
By Oddity Software
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Grossness.
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Bulky; thick; coarse; rude; indelicate; flagrant; as, gross errors; dull; heavy; dense; whole; total; opposite to net.
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Twelve dozen; mass; entire amount.
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Grossly.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Grossness.
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Grossly.
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Coarse: rough: dense: palpable: whole: coarse in mind: stupid: sensual: obscene.
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The main bulk: the whole taken together: a great hundred, i.e., twelve dozen.
By Daniel Lyons
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Grossness.
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Grossly.
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Large and coarse; glaring, as a fault.
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Entire.
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Indelicate; obscene.
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Twelve dozen, as a unit.
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The greater part; mass; entire amount.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.
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Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.
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Expressing, Or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure.
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Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium.
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Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence.
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The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass.
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The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens.
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Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; - opposed to net.
By Noah Webster.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Thick, corpulent; shameful, unseemly; intellectually coarse; inelegant; thick, not refined; stupid, dull; coarse, rough, opposite to delicate.
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The main body, the main force; the bulk, the whole not divided into its several parts; the chief part, the main mass; the number of twelve dozen.
By Thomas Sheridan
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