gross

English

/ɡɹəʊs/, /ɡɹoʊs/

adj
Definitions
  • (of behaviour considered to be wrong) Highly or conspicuously offensive.
  • (of an amount) Excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.
  • (science) Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.
  • (slang) Causing disgust.
  • Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.
  • (of a product) Lacking refinement; not of high quality.
  • (of a person) Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.
  • (archaic) Not sensitive in perception or feeling.
  • (now) Difficult or impossible to see through.
  • (obsolete) Easy to perceive.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English gross (monstrous, entire, whole, flagrant) derived from Old French gros (large, big, stout, thick) derived from Latin grossus (thick, large), grossus (thick, large) derived from Old High German grōz (thick, big, coarse, large, great) derived from Proto-Germanic *grautaz (coarse, big, coarse grained, large, big in size, crude, unrefined, thick, great) derived from Proto-Indo-European *ghrewə- (put down, fell, fall in).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*ghrewə-

Gloss

put down, fell, fall in

Concept
Semantic Field

Agriculture and vegetation

Ontological Category

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