Definition of Gross

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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.

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Gross Quotations

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
John Muir

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw

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

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

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
Fidel Castro

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.
Charles Horton Cooley

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

At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!
John Hughes

People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.
Pamela Anderson

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

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

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