gross

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
gross/ɡrəʊs/

▶adjective

• 1 unattractively large or bloated.

• 2 vulgar; coarse.

  ■ informal very unpleasant; repulsive.

• 3 blatantly wrong or unacceptable: gross human rights abuses.

• 4 (of income, profit, or interest) without deduction of tax or other contributions; total. Often contrasted with net2.

  ■ (of weight) including contents or other variable items; overall.

▶adverb without tax or other contributions having been deducted. ▶verb

• 1 produce or earn (an amount of money) as gross profit or income.

  ■ (gross something up) add deductions such as tax to a net amount.

• 2 (gross someone out) N. Amer. informal disgust someone.

▶noun

• 1 (pl. same) an amount equal to twelve dozen; 144.

• 2 (pl. grosses) a gross profit or income.

– derivatives
grossly adverb,
grossness noun.

– origin ME (in the sense ‘thick, massive’): from OFr. gros, grosse ‘large’, from late L. grossus; sense 1 of the noun is from Fr. grosse douzaine, lit. ‘large dozen’.