| Noun | 1. | gross - twelve dozen | |
| 2. | gross - the entire amount of income before any deductions are madeincome - the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time box office - total admission receipts for an entertainment gate - total admission receipts at a sports event | |
| Verb | 1. | gross - earn before taxes, expenses, etc.earn, realise, pull in, bring in, realize, gain, make, take in, clear - earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages; "How much do you make a month in your new job?"; "She earns a lot in her new job"; "this merger brought in lots of money"; "He clears $5,000 each month" | |
| Adj. | 1. | gross - before any deductions; "gross income"net, nett - remaining after all deductions; "net profit" | |
| 2. | gross - visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features) | |
| 3. | gross - of general aspects or broad distinctions; "the gross details of the structure appear reasonable"general - applying to all or most members of a category or group; "the general public"; "general assistance"; "a general rule"; "in general terms"; "comprehensible to the general reader" | |
| 4. | gross - repellently fat; "a bald porcine old man"fat - having much flesh (especially fat); "he hadn't remembered how fat she was" | |
| 5. | gross - conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery"conspicuous, obvious - obvious to the eye or mind; "a tower conspicuous at a great distance"; "wore conspicuous neckties"; "made herself conspicuous by her exhibitionistic preening" | |
| 6. | gross - without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "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"arrant, double-dyed, sodding, utter, thoroughgoing, staring, perfect, pure, consummate, stark, everlasting, complete unmitigated - not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier; "unmitigated suffering"; "an unmitigated horror"; "an unmitigated lie" | |
| 7. | gross - conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "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"indecent - offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters; "an earthy but not indecent story"; "an indecent gesture" | |