Meaning

11 senses
  1. Remarkably great, big, vast in an often unpleasant way; (of behaviour) Highly or conspicuously offensive.

    a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence; a gross insult

    grob

    серьёзныйserʹjóznyj, большо́йbolʹšój, тя́жкийtjážkij

  2. Excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.

    gross domestic product; gross income; gross weight

    brutto, Brutto-

    бру́ттоbrútto, валово́йvalovój

    before any deductions

  3. Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.

    gross anatomy

  4. (Australia, Canada, US, informal)Causing disgust.

    I threw up all over the bed. It was totally gross.

    ekelhaft, Ekel erregend

    отврати́тельныйotvratítelʹnyj, омерзи́тельныйomerzítelʹnyj, га́дкийgádkij

  5. Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.

    grob, unanständig

    гру́быйgrúbyj, неприли́чныйneprilíčnyj, поха́бныйpoxábnyj

  6. Lacking refinement; not of high quality.

  7. Dense, heavy.

  8. Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.

    dick

    ту́чныйtúčnyj

  9. (poetic)Difficult or impossible to see through.

  10. (archaic)Not sensitive in perception or feeling.

    grob, unempfindlich

    приту́пленныйpritúplennyj

  11. (obsolete)Easy to perceive.

Examples

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  1. That would be gross.

    Це було б огидно.

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  2. This is pretty gross.

    Це огидно.

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  3. Tom is gross.

    Том огидний.

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  4. That's so gross.

    Це так огидно.

    deDas ist so ekelhaft.

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  5. This is really gross.

    Це насправді бридко.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 6
conspicuously offensive:
including all associated amounts:
causing disgust:
lacking refinement in manner; offending morality:
having excess flesh:
not sensitive in perception or feeling:
Deutsch
By meaning 6
conspicuously offensive:
including all associated amounts:
causing disgust:
lacking refinement in manner; offending morality:
having excess flesh:
not sensitive in perception or feeling:

Origin

From Middle English gros (“large, thick, full-bodied; coarse, unrefined, simple”), from Ol

From Middle English gros (“large, thick, full-bodied; coarse, unrefined, simple”), from Old French gros, from Latin grossus (“big, fat, thick”, in Late Latin also “coarse, rough”), of uncertain further origin but perhaps related to Proto-Celtic *brassos (“great, violent”).

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Forms

grosser/more gross, grossest/most gross
Comparativegrosser / more gross Lesson
Superlativegrossest / most gross Lesson

regular

Synonyms

59 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

3 antonyms

Word family

23 related words

See also

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