Gross
Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.
Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.
Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.
Expressing, Or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure.
Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium.
Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence.
Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to net.
The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass.
The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens.
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Gross Quotations
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw
The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
Thomas Malthus
People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
Stephen King
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
Fidel Castro
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
John Muir
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
William Wordsworth
Pure innovation is more gross than error.
George Chapman
One night stands are not for me. I think it's gross when you just give it up.
Paris Hilton
When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross.
Megan Fox
I feel like a voodoo doll. It's grim. It's gross.
Emma Watson
Gross Translations
gross in German is Brutto
gross in Italian is grosso, lordo
gross in Norwegian is plump, tykk, brutto, grov, gross
gross in Spanish is doce docenas
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