gross
transitive verb
Adjective
coarse, vulgar, gross, obscene, ribald mean offensive to good taste or morals.
coarse implies roughness, rudeness, or crudeness of spirit, behavior, or language.
vulgar often implies boorishness or ill-breeding.
gross implies extreme coarseness and insensitiveness.
obscene applies to anything strongly repulsive to the sense of decency and propriety especially in sexual matters.
ribald applies to what is amusingly or picturesquely vulgar or irreverent or mildly indecent.
flagrant, glaring, gross, rank mean conspicuously bad or objectionable.
flagrant applies usually to offenses or errors so bad that they can neither escape notice nor be condoned.
glaring implies painful or damaging obtrusiveness of something that is conspicuously wrong, faulty, or improper.
gross implies the exceeding of reasonable or excusable limits.
rank applies to what is openly and extremely objectionable and utterly condemned.
Adjective, Verb, and Noun (1)
Middle English grosse, from Anglo-French & Late Latin; Anglo-French gros large, thick, whole, from Late Latin grossus coarse
Noun (2)
Middle English gros, probably from Anglo-French grosse sum, whole, from feminine of gros
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1c
Verb
1884, in the meaning defined above
Noun (1)
1579, in the meaning defined at sense 2
14th century, in the meaning defined above
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