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1. Before any deductions
   "gross income"
    
2. Lacking fine distinctions or detail
   "the gross details of the structure appear reasonable"
    
3. Repellently fat
   - porcine
    
4. Visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features)
   - megascopic
    
5. Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
   "gross negligence"
   - arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, perfect, pure, sodding, stark, staring, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated
    
6. Conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
   "a revoltingly gross expletive"
   - crude, earthy, vulgar
    
7. Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
   "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"
   - crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, rank

1. Twelve dozen
   - 144
    
2. The entire amount of income before any deductions are made
   - revenue, receipts

1. Earn before taxes, expenses, etc.

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

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

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

Antonym: net

Encyclopedia: Gross Gross, Kleinhendler, Hodak, Halevy, Greenberg Gross, Nebraska Gross, NE