Synonyms for gross
groʊsgross

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1. grossnoun

   Antonyms:
   fine

2. grossnoun

   Disgusting.

   The movie grossed three million on the first weekend.

   Antonyms:
   fine, net

3. grossnoun

   Coarse, rude, vulgar, obscene, or impure.

   But man to know God is a difficulty, except by a mean he himself inure, which is to know God’s creatures that be: at first them that be of the grossest nature, and then [...] them that be more pure. — 1874: Dodsley et al., A Select Collection of Old English Plays

   Antonyms:
   net, fine

4. grossadjective

   Great, large, palpable, bulky, or fat.

   Antonyms:
   net, fine

5. grossadjective

   Antonyms:
   fine, net

6. grossadjective

   gross domestic product

   Antonyms:
   fine, net

7. grossadjective

   Antonyms:
   fine, net

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1. gross

   Synonyms:
   adulterated, defiled, dirty, filthy, foul, immodest, impure, indecent, indelicate, lewd, mixed, obscene, polluted, stained, sullied, tainted, tarnished, unchaste, unclean

   Antonyms:
   absolute, chaste, classic, classical, clean, clear, continent, genuine, guileless, guiltless, holy, immaculate, incorrupt, innocent, mere, perfect, pure, real, sheer, simple, spotless, stainless, true, unadulterated, unblemished, uncorrupted, undefiled, unmingled, unmixed, unpolluted, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, upright, virtuous

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1. gross

   Synonyms:
   entire, vulgar, vicious, impure, coarse, bloated, sensual, animal, bulk, indelicate, outrageous, unseemly, shameful

   Antonyms:
   partial, net, pure, refined

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1. gross, 144noun

   twelve dozen

   Synonyms:
   receipts, revenue

   Antonyms:
   decent, clear, invisible, lean, unseeable, mitigated, specific, inconspicuous, thin, nett, net, take-home

2. gross, revenue, receiptsadjective

   the entire amount of income before any deductions are made

   Synonyms:
   tax income, receipts, taxation, revenue, tax revenue

   Antonyms:
   take-home, invisible, net, clear, unseeable, nett, inconspicuous, mitigated, decent, lean, thin, specific

3. grossadjective

   before any deductions

   "gross income"

   Synonyms:
   porcine, pure(a), utter(a), unadulterated, thoroughgoing(a), double-dyed(a), crude, perfect(a), egregious, vulgar, glaring, gross(a), staring(a), arrant(a), rank, stark(a), megascopic, flagrant, crying(a), consummate(a), everlasting(a), complete(a), sodding(a), earthy

   Antonyms:
   inconspicuous, invisible, decent, nett, take-home, net, lean, specific, clear, mitigated, unseeable, thin

4. grossadjective

   lacking fine distinctions or detail

   "the gross details of the structure appear reasonable"

   Synonyms:
   porcine, pure(a), utter(a), unadulterated, thoroughgoing(a), double-dyed(a), crude, perfect(a), egregious, vulgar, glaring, gross(a), staring(a), arrant(a), rank, stark(a), megascopic, flagrant, crying(a), consummate(a), everlasting(a), complete(a), sodding(a), earthy

   Antonyms:
   take-home, net, invisible, specific, thin, decent, unseeable, mitigated, nett, lean, clear, inconspicuous

5. gross, porcineadjective

   repellently fat

   "a bald porcine old man"

   Synonyms:
   porcine, pure(a), utter(a), unadulterated, thoroughgoing(a), double-dyed(a), crude, perfect(a), egregious, vulgar, glaring, gross(a), piggy, staring(a), arrant(a), rank, hoggish, stark(a), megascopic, flagrant, crying(a), consummate(a), everlasting(a), swinish, complete(a), sodding(a), earthy, piggish

   Antonyms:
   net, lean, specific, inconspicuous, take-home, unseeable, invisible, clear, nett, thin, decent, mitigated

6. megascopic, grossadjective

   visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features)

   Synonyms:
   porcine, pure(a), utter(a), unadulterated, thoroughgoing(a), double-dyed(a), crude, perfect(a), egregious, vulgar, glaring, gross(a), staring(a), arrant(a), rank, stark(a), megascopic, flagrant, crying(a), consummate(a), everlasting(a), complete(a), sodding(a), earthy

   Antonyms:
   inconspicuous, lean, net, clear, unseeable, take-home, decent, invisible, mitigated, nett, specific, thin

7. arrant(a), complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a), utter(a), unadulteratedadjective

   without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers

   "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth"

   Antonyms:
   inconspicuous, unseeable, thin, invisible, decent, take-home, mitigated, specific, nett, lean, net, clear

8. crude, earthy, gross, vulgaradjective

   conspicuously and tastelessly indecent

   "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"

   Synonyms:
   rough, plebeian, rank, coarse, perfect(a), consummate(a), unadulterated, raw, primitive, common, flagrant, arrant(a), porcine, crying(a), unwashed, staring(a), sodding(a), megascopic, unrefined, rough-cut, glaring, crude(a), rude, crude, complete(a), gross(a), egregious, double-dyed(a), stark(a), vernacular, pure(a), unprocessed, uncouth, blunt, everlasting(a), down-to-earth, earthy, thoroughgoing(a), vulgar, utter(a)

   Antonyms:
   specific, unseeable, decent, nett, inconspicuous, lean, take-home, clear, net, invisible, mitigated, thin

9. crying(a), egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rankverb

   conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible

   "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery"

   Antonyms:
   net, inconspicuous, clear, mitigated, decent, take-home, nett, lean, specific, thin, unseeable, invisible

10. grossverb

    earn before taxes, expenses, etc.

    Antonyms:
    invisible, decent, lean, inconspicuous, clear, unseeable, nett, thin, take-home, specific, net, mitigated

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1. • Earn
   • Large Integer

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1. desgusting

   not a nice look or smells bad

   Submitted by anonymous on February 23, 2021  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. grossadjective

   Synonyms:
   large, big, bulky, great

2. grossadjective

   Synonyms:
   dense, thick, not attenuated

3. grossadjective

   Synonyms:
   coarse, rough, rude, unrefined, indelicate, sensual, impure, vulgar, low, broad

4. grossadjective

   Synonyms:
   enormous, flagrant, shameful, unseemly, unbecoming, outrageous

5. grossadjective

   Synonyms:
   palpable, manifest, glaring

6. grossadjective

   Synonyms:
   whole, total, entire

7. grossnoun

   Synonyms:
   whole, total, aggregate, gross amount, sum total

8. grossnoun

   Synonyms:
   twelve dozen

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1. grossnoun

   Synonyms:
   aggregate

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1. List of paraphrases for "gross":

   crude, raw, flagrant, rough, brute, bruto, blatant, serious, disgusting, total, grave, bully, mao, glaring, unworked, macroscopic, brutal, severe, coarse, egregious, bullies, grossed-up

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How to use gross in a sentence?

1. Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma:

   We see this case as a gross misuse of the prison administrative system to punish someone for criticizing the president, the claim contains evidence that the decision to keep Mr. Avenatti under atrocious conditions was made at the highest level of government.

2. Edith Wharton:

   My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our gross public to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth!

3. William Shakespeare:

   Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.

4. Marco Rubio:

   I chose not to discuss it at the time because I did not want to imperil the safety and well-being of Mr. Gross, who, as I understood it, was either en route or potentially en route within a few hours.

5. The State Department:

   It is gravely disappointing, especially in light of its professed goal of providing Cubans with Internet access, that the Cuban government has not allowed Mr. Gross to return to his family, where he belongs, we reiterate our call on the Cuban government, echoing foreign leaders and even Cuba's allies, to release Alan Gross immediately.