grossest

Adjective

gross (comparative grosser or more gross, superlative grossest or most gross)

1. remarkably great, big, vast in an often unpleasant way; (of behaviour) Highly or conspicuously offensive.
   • a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence; a gross insult

   Synonyms:

   serious, flagrant, shameful, appalling, egregious, unmitigated

2. Excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.
   • gross domestic product; gross income; gross weight

   Synonyms:

   whole, entire, overall, total, aggregate

   Antonyms:

   net

3. Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.
   • gross anatomy

   Synonyms:

   macroscopic

   Antonyms:

   microscopic

4. (Australia, Canada, US, informal) Causing disgust.
   • I threw up all over the bed. It was totally gross.

   Synonyms:

   disgusting, gro, grody, grotesque, grotty, nasty, revolting, yucky

5. Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.
   • Pog. Forsooth my Maister said that hee loved her almost as well as hee loved parmasent, and swore […] that shee wanted such a Nose as his was, to be as pretty a young woeman, as was any in Parma. Do. Oh grose!c. 1626 or 1629–1633 (first performance), [John Ford], ’Tis Pitty Shee’s a Whore […], London: […] Nicholas Okes for Richard Collins, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act I

   Synonyms:

   coarse, rude, vulgar, obscene, impure

6. Lacking refinement; not of high quality.
   • The flowers of Rubens are gross and rude […]1860, John Ruskin, chapter 10, in Modern Painters […], volume V, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, , § 5

   Synonyms:

   coarse, rough, unrefined

   Antonyms:

   fine

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