gross
1. twelve dozen
• Syn:
144
• Hypernyms:
large integer
2. the entire amount of income before any deductions are made
• Syn:
revenue, receipts
• Hypernyms:
sum, sum of money, amount, amount of money
• Hyponyms:
box office, gate
earn before taxes, expenses, etc.
• Hypernyms:
gain, take in, clear, make, earn,
realize, realise, pull in, bring in
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
1. before any deductions (Freq. 8)
- gross income
• Ant:
net
• Similar to:
overall
2. lacking fine distinctions or detail (Freq. 1)
- the gross details of the structure appear reasonable
• Similar to:
general
3. repellently fat (Freq. 1)
- a bald porcine old man
• Syn:
porcine
• Similar to:
fat
4. visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features)
• Syn:
megascopic
• Similar to:
visible, seeable
5. 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
• Syn:
crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, rank
• Similar to:
conspicuous
6. 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
• Syn:
crude, earthy, vulgar
• Similar to:
indecent
• Derivationally related forms:
vulgarity (for: vulgar), grossness, crudeness (for: crude), crudity (for: crude)
7. 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
- the unadulterated truth
• Syn:
arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting,
perfect, pure, sodding, stark, staring, thoroughgoing,
utter, unadulterated
• Similar to:
unmitigated
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