Definition of Gross

Gross Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large. Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate. Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless. Expressing, Or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure. Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium. Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence. Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to net. The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass. The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens. Related Definitions: Amount, Animal, Aroused, As, Attenuated, Body, Bulk, Bulky, Chief, Coarse, Deduction, Delicate, Dense, Dozen, Dull, Easily, Entire, Excited, Expressing, Fat, Feeling, Fine, Great, Gross, Hence, Huge, Impure, In, Injustice, Large, Low, Main, Mass, Medium, Mistake, Negligence, Net, Not, Number, Obscene, Of, Opposed, Or, Originating, Palpable, Part, Pens, Perception, Rough, Sensitive, Sensual, Serious, Shameful, Size, Sum, Ten, The, Thick, Times, To, Total, Twelve, Vagrant, Vulgar, Weight, Whole, Without, Witless

Gross Quotations The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. John Muir People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk. Stephen King I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition. Fidel Castro The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this. William Wordsworth Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. George Bernard Shaw When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross. Megan Fox I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable. Bob Newhart People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross. Pamela Anderson Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers. Bruce Dickinson Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights. Pete Stark

Gross Translations gross in German is Brutto gross in Italian is grosso, lordo gross in Norwegian is plump, tykk, brutto, grov, gross gross in Spanish is doce docenas