'Gross' definitions:
Definition of 'gross'
(from WordNet)
adjective
adjective
Lacking fine distinctions or detail; "the gross details of the structure appear reasonable"
adjective
Repellently fat; "a bald porcine old man" [syn: gross, porcine]
adjective
Visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features) [syn: megascopic, gross]
adjective
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" [syn: arrant(a), complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a), utter(a), unadulterated]
adjective
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" [syn: crude, earthy, gross, vulgar]
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" [syn: crying(a), egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank]
noun
Twelve dozen [syn: gross, 144]
noun
verb
Earn before taxes, expenses, etc.
Definition of 'Gross'
From: GCIDE
- Gross \Gross\, a. [Compar. Grosser; superl. Grossest.] [F. gros, L. grossus, perh. fr. L. crassus thick, dense, fat, E. crass, cf. Skr. grathita tied together, wound up, hardened. Cf. Engross, Grocer, Grogram.]
- 1. Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large. "A gross fat man." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- A gross body of horse under the Duke. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless. [1913 Webster]
- Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Expressing, or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure. [1913 Webster]
- The terms which are delicate in one age become gross in the next. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Hence: Disgusting; repulsive; highly offensive; as, a gross remark. [PJC]
- 6. Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium. [1913 Webster]
- 7. Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence. [1913 Webster]
- 8. Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to net. [1913 Webster]
- Gross adventure (Law) the loan of money upon bottomry, i. e., on a mortgage of a ship.
- Gross average (Law), that kind of average which falls upon the gross or entire amount of ship, cargo, and freight; -- commonly called general average. --Bouvier. --Burrill.
- Gross receipts, the total of the receipts, before they are diminished by any deduction, as for expenses; -- distinguished from net profits. --Abbott.
- Gross weight the total weight of merchandise or goods, without deduction for tare, tret, or waste; -- distinguished from neat weight, or net weight. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Gross'
From: GCIDE
- Gross \Gross\, n. [F. gros (in sense 1), grosse (in sense 2). See Gross, a.]
- 1. The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass. "The gross of the enemy." --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- For the gross of the people, they are considered as a mere herd of cattle. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- 2. sing. & pl. The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens. [1913 Webster]
- Advowson in gross (Law), an advowson belonging to a person, and not to a manor.
- A great gross, twelve gross; one hundred and forty-four dozen.
- By the gross, by the quantity; at wholesale.
- Common in gross. (Law) See under Common, n.
- In the gross, In gross, in the bulk, or the undivided whole; all parts taken together. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'gross'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abhorrent,
- abject,
- abominable,
- absolute,
- Adamic,
- adipose,
- afford,
- aggregate,
- all,
- all-embracing,
- all-inclusive,
- animal,
- animalistic,
- arrant,
- asinine,
- atrocious,
- avails,
- awful,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- barnyard,
- base,
- bawdy,
- be-all and end-all,
- beastlike,
- beastly,
- beef-brained,
- beef-witted,
- beefy,
- beggarly,
- below contempt,
- beneath contempt,
- bestial,
- bicentenary,
- bicentennial,
- big,
- big-bellied,
- blameworthy,
- blatant,
- bloated,
- blockish,
- blowzy,
- bodily,
- Boeotian,
- bosomy,
- bovine,
- box office,
- brawny,
- bring in,
- broad,
- broad-bodied,
- brutal,
- brute,
- brutish,
- bulky,
- bullnecked,
- burly,
- buxom,
- C,
- cacophonous,
- capital,
- capital gains,
- capitalize on,
- carnal,
- carnal-minded,
- cash in on,
- cental,
- centare,
- centenarian,
- centenary,
- centennial,
- centennium,
- centigram,
- centimeter,
- centipede,
- centistere,
- centred,
- centref,
- centrev,
- centumvir,
- centumvirate,
- centurion,
- century,
- cheesy,
- chubby,
- chumpish,
- chunky,
- Circean,
- classical,
- clean up,
- cleanup,
- clear,
- clear profit,
- cloddish,
- clumsy,
- coarse,
- coarse-grained,
- coin money,
- commercialize,
- commissions,
- complete,
- comprehensive,
- consummate,
- contemptible,
- corporeal,
- corpulent,
- cowish,
- crass,
- credit,
- credits,
- cross-grained,
- crude,
- crummy,
- cumbersome,
- cwt,
- damned,
- debased,
- decided,
- definitive,
- degraded,
- dense,
- deplorable,
- depraved,
- despicable,
- detestable,
- dire,
- dirty,
- disgusting,
- disposable income,
- distended,
- dividend,
- dividends,
- doggerel,
- doltish,
- Doric,
- downright,
- dreadful,
- dullard,
- dumb,
- dumpy,
- duncical,
- duncish,
- dysphemistic,
- earn,
- earned income,
- earnings,
- earthy,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- entire,
- entirety,
- evident,
- excessive,
- execrable,
- exhaustive,
- exorbitant,
- extreme,
- exuberant,
- fallen,
- fat,
- fattish,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- filthy lucre,
- flagrant,
- fleshly,
- fleshy,
- flourishing,
- forbidding,
- foul,
- frank,
- full,
- full-bodied,
- fulsome,
- gain,
- gain by,
- gains,
- gate,
- gate receipts,
- gaudy,
- get,
- gettings,
- glaring,
- gleanings,
- graceless,
- grained,
- grainy,
- granular,
- granulated,
- grave,
- great,
- grievous,
- gritty,
- gross income,
- gross profit,
- gross receipts,
- gutter,
- harsh,
- hateful,
- heavy,
- heavyset,
- hecatomb,
- hefty,
- heinous,
- hippy,
- hoard,
- holistic,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- hundred,
- hundredweight,
- ignoble,
- immoderate,
- impenetrable,
- imposing,
- improper,
- impure,
- in bad taste,
- inappropriate,
- inclusive,
- income,
- inconcinnate,
- inconcinnous,
- incorrect,
- indecent,
- indecorous,
- indelicate,
- ineducable,
- inelegant,
- infamous,
- infelicitous,
- inordinate,
- intake,
- integral,
- integrated,
- interest,
- intolerable,
- jungled,
- jungly,
- killing,
- klutzy,
- lamentable,
- lapsed,
- large,
- lewd,
- little,
- loathsome,
- long hundred,
- loud,
- lousy,
- low,
- low-down,
- lucre,
- lumpen,
- lumpish,
- lush,
- lusty,
- luxuriant,
- make,
- make a killing,
- make money,
- make money by,
- makings,
- malodorous,
- mangy,
- manifest,
- massive,
- material,
- materialistic,
- mean,
- measly,
- meaty,
- mephitic,
- meretricious,
- miasmal,
- miasmic,
- miserable,
- monstrous,
- nasty,
- nauseating,
- neat profit,
- nefarious,
- net,
- net income,
- net profit,
- net receipts,
- noisome,
- nonspiritual,
- notorious,
- noxious,
- oafish,
- obese,
- objectionable,
- objective,
- obnoxious,
- obscene,
- obvious,
- odious,
- offensive,
- omnibus,
- one,
- one and indivisible,
- one C,
- opaque,
- orgiastic,
- out-and-out,
- outlandish,
- output,
- outrageous,
- outright,
- overall,
- overgrown,
- overrun,
- overweight,
- paltry,
- paper profits,
- paunchy,
- pay,
- pay off,
- pelf,
- percentage,
- perfect,
- perk,
- perks,
- perquisite,
- petty,
- phenomenal,
- physical,
- pickings,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- plain,
- plump,
- podgy,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- poor,
- pornographic,
- portly,
- positive,
- postlapsarian,
- potbellied,
- precious,
- proceeds,
- produce,
- profit,
- profits,
- profound,
- pronounced,
- proper,
- pudgy,
- puffy,
- pursy,
- Rabelaisian,
- rake-off,
- rank,
- raw,
- realize,
- realize on,
- rebarbative,
- receipt,
- receipts,
- receivables,
- regrettable,
- regular,
- repellent,
- reprehensible,
- reptilian,
- repugnant,
- repulsive,
- return,
- returns,
- revenue,
- revolting,
- ribald,
- riotous,
- roly-poly,
- rotten,
- rotund,
- rough,
- royalties,
- rude,
- sad,
- scabby,
- scandalous,
- scatological,
- schlock,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- sensible,
- sensual,
- sesquicentenary,
- sesquicentennial,
- shabby,
- shameful,
- shattering,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sickening,
- small,
- smutty,
- sordid,
- sottish,
- squalid,
- square,
- squat,
- squatty,
- stalwart,
- stark,
- stark-staring,
- stinking,
- stocky,
- store,
- stout,
- strapping,
- stupid,
- substantial,
- sum,
- sum total,
- superlative,
- surpassing,
- swinish,
- swollen,
- take,
- take in,
- take-in,
- takings,
- tangible,
- tasteless,
- tercentenary,
- tercentennial,
- terrible,
- the veriest,
- thick,
- thick-bodied,
- thickset,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- three-dimensional,
- too bad,
- top-heavy,
- total,
- totality,
- tote,
- tubby,
- turn a penny,
- turn to account,
- turn to profit,
- unbearable,
- unclean,
- unconscionable,
- uncourtly,
- uncouth,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- undeniable,
- undignified,
- unearned income,
- unequivocal,
- uneuphonious,
- unfelicitous,
- ungraceful,
- universal,
- unmentionable,
- unmitigated,
- unpolished,
- unqualified,
- unrefined,
- unrelieved,
- unseemly,
- unsophisticated,
- unspiritual,
- unspoiled,
- unteachable,
- unweeded,
- unwieldy,
- utter,
- vile,
- villainous,
- viscous,
- vulgar,
- wealth,
- weed-choked,
- weed-ridden,
- weedy,
- weighty,
- well-fed,
- whole,
- winnings,
- woeful,
- worst,
- worthless,
- wretched,
- wrongheaded,
- yield
Gross, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Gross, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
Population (2000) :
5
Housing Units (2000) :
1
Land area (2000) :
0.130441 sq. miles (0.337841 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
0.130441 sq. miles (0.337841 sq. km)
FIPS code :
20295
Located within :
Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location :
42.946756 N, 98.569233 W
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Words containing 'Gross'
- By the gross,
- Grossness,
- In gross,
- In the gross,
- gross out,
- A great gross,
- Advowson in gross,
- Common in gross,
- Gross adventure,
- Gross average,
- Gross receipts,
- Gross weight,
- Gross, NE,
- Grosse Ile,
- Grosse Pointe,
- Grosse Tete,
- great gross,
- gross anatomy,
- gross estate,
- gross income,
- gross margin,
- gross profit,
- gross revenue,
- gross sales,
- gross ton,
- sale in gross,
- Gross-headed,
- Grosse Ile, MI,
- Grosse Pointe Farms,
- Grosse Pointe Park,
- Grosse Pointe Shores,
- Grosse Pointe Woods,
- Grosse Pointe, MI,
- Grosse Tete, LA,
- gross domestic product,
- gross national product,
- gross profit margin,
- Grosse Pointe Farms, MI,
- Grosse Pointe Park, MI,
- Grosse Pointe Shores, MI,
- Grosse Pointe Woods, MI,
- real gross national product