Definition of gross

"gross" in the noun sense

1. gross, 144

twelve dozen

2. gross, revenue, receipts

the entire amount of income before any deductions are made

"gross" in the verb sense

1. gross

earn before taxes, expenses, etc.

"gross" in the adjective sense

1. gross

before any deductions

"gross income"

2. gross

lacking fine distinctions or detail

"the gross details of the structure appear reasonable"

3. gross, porcine

repellently fat

"a bald porcine old man"

4. megascopic, gross

visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features)

5. arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, stark, staring, thorough, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated

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"

6. crude, earthy, gross, vulgar

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"

7. crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank

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"

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Quotations for gross

Love is a spirit all compact of fire;
Not gross to sink, but light and will aspire. [ Shakespeare ]

Wealth in the gross is death, but life diffused;
As poison heals, in just proportion used;
In heaps, like ambergrise, a stink it lies,
But well dispersed, is incense to the skies. [ Pope ]

I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe
The bosom of a friend will hold a secret
Mine own could not retain. [ Massinger ]

Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste:
For valour, is not love a Hercules? [ William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act. IV. Sc. 3 ]

These lies are like the father that begets them; gross as a mountain, open, palpable. [ William Shakespeare ]

Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss. [ Dryden ]

Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived, and has seldom been disappointed. [ Mackenzie ]

Applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable. [ Shenstone ]

The man that lays his hand on woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward. [ Tobin ]

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible. [ Colton ]

I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity or classical works with gross and trivial recollections. [ Wordsworth ]

The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium. [ G. S. Hillard ]

It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work. [ Theodore Parker ]

Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree. [ Barrow ]

As the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and superficial order of garments (in man or woman) give us a taste of the spirit, and demonstratively point (as it were a manual note from the margin) all the internal quality of the soul; and there cannot be a more evident, palpable, gross manifestation of poor, degenerate, dunghilly blood and breeding than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly outside. [ Massinger ]

gross in Scrabble®

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Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

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Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

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Words within the letters of gross

2 letter words in gross (4 words)

3 letter words in gross (2 words)

5 letter words in gross (1 word)

gross + 1 blank (2 words)

Word Growth involving gross

Shorter words in gross

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Longer words containing gross

engross engrossed engrossedly

engross engrossed engrossedness selfengrossedness

engross engrossed overengrossed

engross engrossed selfengrossed selfengrossedness

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