01 a. Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.
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Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.“A gross body of horse under the Duke.” — Milton.
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Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.
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3.
Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.“Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear.” — Milton.
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Expressing, or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure.“The terms which are delicate in one age become gross in the next.” — Macaulay.
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Disgusting; repulsive; highly offensive; as, a gross remark.
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Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium.
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Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence.
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Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to net.
Phrases & compounds
Gross adventure —
the loan of money upon bottomry, i. e., on a mortgage of a ship.
Gross average —
that kind of average which falls upon the gross or entire amount of ship, cargo, and freight; -- commonly called general average.
Gross receipts —
the total of the receipts, before they are diminished by any deduction, as for expenses; -- distinguished from net profits.
Gross weight —
the total weight of merchandise or goods, without deduction for tare, tret, or waste; -- distinguished from neat weight, [or] net weight.