Definitions for the word "gross" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. superl.
Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. superl.
Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. superl.
Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. superl.
Expressing, Or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. superl.
Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. superl.
Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. superl.
Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to net.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. a.
The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. sing. & pl.
The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. adj.
1 overfed, bloated. 2 (of a person, manners, or morals) coarse, unrefined, or indecent. 3 flagrant (gross negligence). 4 total; not net (gross tonnage). 5 (of the senses etc.) Dull. v. Produce as gross profit. n. (pl. Same) amount equal to twelve dozen. grossly adv. Grossness n. [latin grossus]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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