1. (superl.) Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.
2. (superl.) Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.
3. (superl.) Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.
4. (superl.) Expressing, Or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure.
5. (superl.) Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium.
6. (superl.) Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence.
7. (superl.) Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to net.
8. (n.) The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass.
9. (sing. & pl.) The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens.
Thesaurus Entries
Adamic, Boeotian, C, Circean, Doric, Rabelaisian, abhorrent, abject, abominable, absolute, 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, bosomy, bovine, box office, brawny, bring in, broad, broad-bodied, brutal, brute, brutish, bulky, bullnecked, burly, buxom, 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, 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, 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
