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grossness

UK/ˈɡɹəʊsnəs/

grossness noun: lack of refinement in character, behaviour etc.; coarseness.

Noun

grossness (countable and uncountable, plural grossnesses)

  1. Lack of refinement in character, behaviour etc.; coarseness.
    • Now that he was doing so much else she could never have the grossness to apply for it to Sir Claude.1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew
    • He […] began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings. The clowns soon found that he did not know wheat from rye, and began to despise him; one of the boys, by pretending to show him a bird's nest, decoyed him into a...August 25, 1759, Samuel Johnson, The Idler No. 71
  2. (slang) The quality of being repulsive or disgusting.
  3. (obsolete) Size.

grossness meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

grossness in Tamil

முதுகு, தூலம், பருமை

grossness in Urdu

غلاظت, کثافت, خشونت

grossness in Bengali

চরিত্র, আচরণ ইত্যাদিতে পরিশীলনের অভাব, অমার্জিত ভাব, বিরক্তিকর, জঘন্য হওয়ার বৈশিষ্ট্য, আকার

Forms of grossness

pluralgrossnesses

Origin of grossness

From gross + -ness.

Words that rhyme with grossness

Questions about grossness

What does grossness mean?
Grossness means lack of refinement in character, behaviour etc.; coarseness.
What is grossness in Tamil?
Grossness in Tamil is முதுகு, தூலம், பருமை. See Grossness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is grossness?
Grossness is a noun.
How do you pronounce grossness?
Grossness is pronounced /ˈɡɹəʊsnəs/ (UK).
What is the plural of grossness?
The plural of grossness is grossnesses.

Words near grossness in the dictionary

  1. Grossman
  2. Grossmann
  3. Grossmanns
  4. Grossmith
  5. Grossmiths
  6. grossness
  7. grossnesses
  8. Grossnickle
  9. Grossnickles
  10. Grosso
  11. grosso modo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grossness (page history and authors); grossness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); grossness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); grossness (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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