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gross

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1. gross - Noun

2. gross - Adjective

3. gross - Verb

5. gross - Adjective Satellite

6. Gross - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. George Bernard Shaw

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

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. Robertson Davies

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. Charles Cooley

Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation you do not find it among gross people. Samuel Johnson

A gross belly does not produce a refined mind. Danish Proverb

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