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Webster 1913 Edition
Gross
Gross
,Adj.
[
Com
par.
Grosser
; sup
erl.
Grossest
.] 1.
Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.
“A gross fat man.” Shak.
A
gross
body of horse under the Duke. Milton.
2.
Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.
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.
4.
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.
6.
Thick; dense; not attenuated;
as, a
. gross
medium7.
Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful;
as, a
gross
mistake; gross
injustice; gross
negligence.8.
Whole; entire; total; without deduction;
as, the
; – opposed to gross
sum, or gross
amount, the gross
weightnet.
Gross adventure
(Law)
the loan of money upon bottomry, i. e., on a mortgage of a ship.
– Gross average
(Law)
, that kind of average which falls upon the gross or entire amount of ship, cargo, and freight; – commonly called
general average
. Bouvier.
Burrill.
– Gross receipts
, the total of the receipts, before they are diminished by any deduction, as for expenses; – distinguished from net profits.
Abbott.
– Gross weight
the total weight of merchandise or goods, without deduction for tare, tret, or waste; – distinguished from
neat weight
, or net weight
.1.
The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass.
“The gross of the enemy.” Addison.
For the
gross
of the people, they are considered as a mere herd of cattle. Burke.
2.
s
ing.
& pl.
The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve;
as, a
gross
of bottles; ten gross
of pens.Advowson in gross
(Law)
, an advowson belonging to a person, and not to a manor.
– A great gross
, twelve gross; one hundred and forty-four dozen.
– By the gross
, by the quantity; at wholesale.
– Common in gross
. (Law)
See under
– Common
, Noun.
In the gross
, In gross
in the bulk, or the undivided whole; all parts taken together.
Webster 1828 Edition
Gross
GROSS
,Adj.
1.
Thick; bulky; particularly applied to animals; fat; corpulent; as a gross man; a gross body.2.
Coarse; rude; rough; not delicate; as gross sculpture.3.
Coarse, in a figurative sense; rough; mean; particularly, vulgar; obscene; indelicate; as gross language; gross jests.4.
Thick; large; opposed to fine; as wood or stone of a gross grain.5.
Impure; unrefined; as gross sensuality.6.
Great; palpable; as a gross mistake; gross injustice.7.
Coarse; large; not delicate; as gross features.8.
Thick; dense; not attenuated; not refined or pure; as a gross medium of sight; gross air; gross elements.9.
Unseemly; enormous; shameful; great; as gross corruptions; gross vices. 10. Stupid; dull.
Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear.
11. Whole; entire; as the gross sum, or gross amount, as opposed to a sum consisting of separate or specified parts.
GROSS
,Noun.
1.
The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as a gross of bottles. It never has the plural form. We say, five gross or ten gross.In the gross, in gross, in the bulk, or the whole undivided; all parts taken together.
By the gross, in a like sense.
Gross weight, is the weight of merchandize or goods, with the dust and dross, the bag, cask, chest, &c., in which they are contained, for which an allowance is to be made of tare and tret. This being deducted, the remainder or real weight is denominated neat or net weight. Gross weight has lately been abolished in Connecticut by statute, May, 1827.
In English law, a villain in gross, was one who did not belong to the land, but immediately to the person of the lord, and was transferrable by deed, like chattels, from one owner to another.
Advowson in gross, an advowson separated from the property of a manor,and annexed to the person of its owner.
Common in gross, is common annexed to a man's person, and not appurtenant to land.
Definition 2024
Gross
Gross
English
Proper noun
Gross
- A surname, originally a nickname for a big man, from Middle English gros (“large”).
- A village in Nebraska, having a population of two as of 2010.
See also
- Gross (surname) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
gross
gross
English
Adjective
gross (comparative grosser or more gross, superlative grossest or most gross)
- (slang) Disgusting, nasty.
- Coarse, rude, vulgar, obscene, or impure.
- 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, Act I, Scene 1,
- Verjuice. She certainly has Talents.
- Lady Sneerwell. But her manner is gross.
- 1874: Dodsley et al., A Select Collection of Old English Plays
- But man to know God is a difficulty, except by a mean he himself inure, which is to know God’s creatures that be: at first them that be of the grossest nature, and then [...] them that be more pure.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 12, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.
- 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, Act I, Scene 1,
- Coarse, unrefined.
- 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, “Lorenzo Was Registered,”
- He scorned my wholesome kennel fare, toothing out dainties and leaving the grosser portions to be finished by the other dogs.
- 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, “Lorenzo Was Registered,”
- Great, large, bulky, or fat.
- 2013, Hilary Mantel, ‘Royal Bodies’, London Review of Books, 35.IV:
- He collected a number of injuries that stopped him jousting, and then in middle age became stout, eventually gross.
- 2013, Hilary Mantel, ‘Royal Bodies’, London Review of Books, 35.IV:
- Great, serious, flagrant, or shameful.
- a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence
- The whole amount; entire; total before any deductions.
- 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
-
- Not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.
- Milton
- Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear.
- Milton
- (pathology) seen without a microscope, macroscopic, usually for a tissue or an organ.
Synonyms
Antonyms
- fine
- (total before any deductions): net
- (macroscopic): microscopic
Related terms
Translations
disgusting
|
|
coarse, rude, obscene
bulky, fat
serious, flagrant, shameful
whole amount, total
|
dull
Noun
gross (plural gross or grosses)
- Twelve dozen = 144.
- The total nominal earnings or amount, before taxes, expenses, exceptions or similar are deducted. That which remains after all deductions is called net.
- The bulk, the mass, the masses.
Translations
twelve dozen
total earnings or amount
|
Verb
gross (third-person singular simple present grosses, present participle grossing, simple past and past participle grossed)
- To earn money, not including expenses.
- The movie grossed three million on the first weekend.
- 2014 January 21, Hermione Hoby, “Julia Roberts interview for August: Osage County – 'I might actually go to **** for this ...': Julia Roberts reveals why her violent, Oscar-nominated performance in August: Osage County made her feel 'like a terrible person' [print version: 'I might actually go to **** for this ...' (18 January 2014, p. R4)]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
- The film grossed $464 million worldwide, ensconcing her in the Hollywood A-list.
Related terms
Derived terms
- gross receipts
- gross weight
- gross income
German
Adjective
gross (comparative grösser, superlative am grössten)
- Switzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of groß (in the past, this form was also found in other regions).
- Bach, Cantata BWV 71: Gott ist mein König
- Glück, Heil und grosser Sieg
- Good fortune, salvation and great victory
- Glück, Heil und grosser Sieg
- Bach, Cantata BWV 71: Gott ist mein König
Declension
Positive forms of gross
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | er ist gross | sie ist gross | es ist gross | sie sind gross | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | grosser | grosse | grosses | grosse |
genitive | grossen | grosser | grossen | grosser | |
dative | grossem | grosser | grossem | grossen | |
accusative | grossen | grosse | grosses | grosse | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der grosse | die grosse | das grosse | die grossen |
genitive | des grossen | der grossen | des grossen | der grossen | |
dative | dem grossen | der grossen | dem grossen | den grossen | |
accusative | den grossen | die grosse | das grosse | die grossen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein grosser | eine grosse | ein grosses | (keine) grossen |
genitive | eines grossen | einer grossen | eines grossen | (keiner) grossen | |
dative | einem grossen | einer grossen | einem grossen | (keinen) grossen | |
accusative | einen grossen | eine grosse | ein grosses | (keine) grossen |
Comparative forms of gross
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | er ist grösser | sie ist grösser | es ist grösser | sie sind grösser | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | grösserer | grössere | grösseres | grössere |
genitive | grösseren | grösserer | grösseren | grösserer | |
dative | grösserem | grösserer | grösserem | grösseren | |
accusative | grösseren | grössere | grösseres | grössere | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der grössere | die grössere | das grössere | die grösseren |
genitive | des grösseren | der grösseren | des grösseren | der grösseren | |
dative | dem grösseren | der grösseren | dem grösseren | den grösseren | |
accusative | den grösseren | die grössere | das grössere | die grösseren | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein grösserer | eine grössere | ein grösseres | (keine) grösseren |
genitive | eines grösseren | einer grösseren | eines grösseren | (keiner) grösseren | |
dative | einem grösseren | einer grösseren | einem grösseren | (keinen) grösseren | |
accusative | einen grösseren | eine grössere | ein grösseres | (keine) grösseren |
Superlative forms of gross
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | er ist am grössten | sie ist am grössten | es ist am grössten | sie sind am grössten | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | grösster | grösste | grösstes | grösste |
genitive | grössten | grösster | grössten | grösster | |
dative | grösstem | grösster | grösstem | grössten | |
accusative | grössten | grösste | grösstes | grösste | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der grösste | die grösste | das grösste | die grössten |
genitive | des grössten | der grössten | des grössten | der grössten | |
dative | dem grössten | der grössten | dem grössten | den grössten | |
accusative | den grössten | die grösste | das grösste | die grössten | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein grösster | eine grösste | ein grösstes | (keine) grössten |
genitive | eines grössten | einer grössten | eines grössten | (keiner) grössten | |
dative | einem grössten | einer grössten | einem grössten | (keinen) grössten | |
accusative | einen grössten | eine grösste | ein grösstes | (keine) grössten |