1. Before any deductions
   "gross income"
    
2. Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
   "gross ineptitude";
   - crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, rank
    
3. Conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
   "a revoltingly gross expletive";
   - crude, earthy, vulgar, coarse, salty, ripe [informal]
    
4. Repellently fat
   "a bald gross old man";
   - porcine
    
5. Total or absolute (intensifier, usually emphasizing negative qualities)
   "gross negligence";
   - arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, perfect, pure, sodding [Brit, informal], stark, staring, thorough, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated, rigorous, total
    
6. Lacking fine distinction or details
   "the gross details of the structure appear reasonable"
    
7. Visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features)
   "The gross crystals in the granite were easily identifiable";
   - megascopic

1. The entire amount of income before any deductions are made
   "The company's gross receipts for the quarter exceeded expectations";
   - revenue, receipts
    
2. Twelve dozen
   "A gross contains 144 items";
   - 144

1. Earn before taxes, expenses, etc.
   "The company grossed $1 million in sales last quarter"

Derived forms: grosses, grossest, grossing, grosser, grossed

See also: conspicuous, fat, general, indecent, overall, seeable, unmitigated, visible

Type of: amount, amount of money, bring in, clear, earn, gain, large integer, make, pull in [informal], realise [Brit], realize, sum, sum of money, take in

Antonym: net

Encyclopedia: Gross, NE