GROSS

Pronunciation (US):

• GROSS (noun)
  The noun GROSS has 2 senses:

1. twelve dozen
2. the entire amount of income before any deductions are made

  Familiarity information: GROSS used as a noun is rare.

• GROSS (adjective)
  The adjective GROSS has 7 senses:

1. before any deductions
2. visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features)
3. lacking fine distinctions or detail
4. repellently fat
5. conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
6. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
7. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent

  Familiarity information: GROSS used as an adjective is common.

• GROSS (verb)
  The verb GROSS has 1 sense:

1. earn before taxes, expenses, etc.

  Familiarity information: GROSS used as a verb is very rare.

• GROSS (noun)

Meaning:

Twelve dozen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

144; gross

Hypernyms ("gross" is a kind of...):

large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)

Meaning:

The entire amount of income before any deductions are made

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

receipts; revenue; gross

Hypernyms ("gross" is a kind of...):

income (the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gross"):

box office (total admission receipts for an entertainment)

gate (total admission receipts at a sports event)

• GROSS (adjective)

Meaning:

Before any deductions

Context example:

gross income

Similar:

overall; total; whole (including everything)

Antonym:

net (remaining after all deductions)

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

megascopic; gross

Similar:

macroscopic; macroscopical (large enough to be visible to the naked eye)

Meaning:

Lacking fine distinctions or detail

Context example:

the gross details of the structure appear reasonable

Similar:

general (applying to all or most members of a category or group)

Meaning:

Repellently fat

Synonyms:

porcine; gross

Context example:

a bald porcine old man

Similar:

fat (having much flesh (especially fat))

Meaning:

Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible

Synonyms:

egregious; flagrant; glaring; crying; rank; gross

Context examples:

a crying shame / an egregious lie / flagrant violation of human rights / a glaring error / gross ineptitude / gross injustice / rank treachery

Similar:

conspicuous (obvious to the eye or mind)

Meaning:

Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers

Synonyms:

arrant; utter; sodding; double-dyed; staring; thoroughgoing; pure; perfect; everlasting; unadulterated; consummate; stark; complete; gross

Context examples:

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

Similar:

unmitigated (not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier)

Meaning:

Conspicuously and tastelessly indecent

Synonyms:

earthy; crude; coarse; vulgar; gross

Context examples:

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

Similar:

indecent (offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters)

• GROSS (verb)

Meaning:

Earn before taxes, expenses, etc.

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "gross" is one way to...):

bring in; clear; earn; gain; make; pull in; realise; realize; take in (earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something