gross

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   lacking fine distinctions or detail

   the gross details of the structure appear reasonable

2. 2
   adj

   before any deductions

   gross income

3. 3
   adj

   Highly or conspicuously offensive.

   a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence; a gross insult

4. 4
   adj

   Of an amount: excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.

   gross domestic product; gross income; gross weight

5. 5
   adj

   Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.

   gross anatomy

6. 6
   adj

   Causing disgust.

   I threw up all over the bed. It was totally gross.

7. 7
   adj

   Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.

   Pog. Forsooth my Maister said that hee loved her almost as well as hee loved parmasent, and swore […] that shee wanted such a Nose as his was, to be as pretty a young woeman, as was any in Parma. Do. Oh grose!

8. 8
   adj

   Lacking refinement; not of high quality.

   The flowers of Rubens are gross and rude […]

Etymology

* As a Jewish and German surname, from groß (“great, large”). The Jewish surname was influenced by Hebrew גדול (“big, large”), hence the Hebraicization Gadol. * As an English surname, from the noun and adjective gross, a doublet of above. The village is named after Ben Gross, who kept a general store there.