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Grossness

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Noun

1. coarseness, commonness, grossness, raunch, vulgarism, vulgarity

the quality of lacking taste and refinement

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Grossness

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adjective
1. 
repellently or excessively fat or bulky
2. 
with no deductions for expenses, tax, etc; total
gross sales
gross income
Compare net2 (sense 1)
3. 
(of personal qualities, tastes, etc) conspicuously coarse or vulgar
4. 
obviously or exceptionally culpable or wrong; flagrant
gross inefficiency
5. 
lacking in perception, sensitivity, or discrimination
gross judgments
6. 
(esp of vegetation) dense; thick; luxuriant
7. obsolete
coarse in texture or quality
8. rare
rude; uneducated; ignorant
exclamation slang
9. 
an exclamation indicating disgust
noun
10. Word forms: plural gross
a unit of quantity equal to 12 dozen
11. Word forms: plural grosses
a. 
the entire amount
b. 
the great majority
verb (transitive)
12. 
to earn as total revenue, before deductions for expenses, tax, etc

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Grossness

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adjective
1. 
big or fat and coarse-looking; corpulent; burly
2. 
glaring; flagrant; very bad
a gross miscalculation
3. 
dense; thick
4. 
a. 
lacking fineness, as in texture
b. 
lacking fine distinctions or specific details
5. 
lacking in refinement or perception; insensitive; dull
6. 
vulgar; obscene; coarse
gross language
7.  Slang
unpleasant, disgusting, offensive, etc.
8. 
with no deductions; total; entire
gross income
see also net2
9.  Archaic
evident; obvious
noun
10. Word forms: plural ˈgrosses
overall total, as of income, before deductions are taken
11. Word forms: plural gross
twelve dozen
verb transitive, verb intransitive
12. 
to earn (a specified total amount) before expenses are deducted

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Grossness

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adj. gross·er, gross·est
1.
a. Exclusive of deductions; total: gross profits. See Synonyms at whole.
b. Unmitigated in any way; utter: gross incompetence.
2. So obvious or conspicuous as to cause or heighten offense: gross injustice. See Synonyms at flagrant.
3.
a. Brutishly coarse, as in behavior; crude: "It is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross" (Thomas H. Huxley).
b. Disgusting or offensive: Don't you think slugs are gross? He told a gross joke.
4. Overweight; corpulent: "Sally is fat. She is gross. She must weigh twelve stone and more" (Margaret Drabble).
5.
a. On a large scale; not fine or detailed: gross anatomical similarities; gross motor skills.
b. Broad; general: the gross necessities of life.
n.
1. pl. gross·es The entire body or amount, as of income, before necessary deductions have been made.
2. pl. gross Abbr. gr. or gro. A group of 144 items; 12 dozen.
tr.v. grossed, gross·ing, gross·es
To earn as a total income or profit before deductions: The store grossed $10,000 last month.

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