Definition of Gross

Noun

  • the entire amount of income before any deductions are made
  • twelve dozen
    - 144

Verb

  • earn before taxes, expenses, etc.

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"
  • 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"
  • 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 thoroughgoing villain"
    "utter nonsense"
    "the unadulterated truth"
    - double dyed
  • visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features)
  • repellently fat
    "a bald porcine old man"
  • lacking fine distinctions or detail
    "the gross details of the structure appear reasonable"
  • before any deductions
    "gross income"
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Unscramble gross

13 unscramble word found using the letters gross.

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