Usually means: Disgusting, unpleasant, large in amount.
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We found 63 dictionaries that define the word gross:

General (33 matching dictionaries)
  1. gross: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. gross: Collins English Dictionary
  3. gross: Vocabulary.com
  4. Gross, gross: Wordnik
  5. gross: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Gross, gross: Wiktionary
  7. gross: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. gross: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. gross: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. gross: Dictionary.com
  11. gross (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. gross: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Gross (disambiguation), Gross (economics), Gross (surname), Gross (unit), Gross, Gross: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Gross: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. gross: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. gross: Rhymezone
  17. gross: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. gross: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Gross: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. gross: Free Dictionary
  21. Gross, gross: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. gross: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. gross: Merriam-Webster.com
  24. gross: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  25. gross: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. Gross: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. gross: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. GROSS: Accounting Glossary
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Gross: bizterms.net
  8. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Gross: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  10. gross: Finance-Glossary.com
  11. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  12. gross: Legal dictionary
  13. gross: Financial dictionary
  14. Gross: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  15. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  16. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gross: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. gross: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  2. gross: Idioms
  3. GROSS: Acronym Finder

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gross: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. gross: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. G.R.O.S.S: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See grossed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (of behaviour considered to be wrong) Highly or conspicuously offensive.
adjective:  (of an amount) Excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.
adjective:  (sciences, pathology) Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.
adjective:  (informal, Canada, US, Australia) Causing disgust.
adjective:  Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.
adjective:  (of a product) Lacking refinement; not of high quality.
adjective:  (of a substance) Dense, heavy.
adjective:  (of a person) Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.
adjective:  (now chiefly poetic) Difficult or impossible to see through.
adjective:  (archaic) Not sensitive in perception or feeling.
adjective:  (obsolete) Easy to perceive.
noun:  Twelve dozen = 144.
noun:  The total nominal earnings or amount, before taxes, expenses, exceptions or similar are deducted. That which remains after all deductions is called net.
noun:  The bulk, the mass, the masses.
verb:  (transitive) To earn money, not including expenses.
noun:  A surname from Middle English, originally a nickname for a big man, from Middle English gros (“large”).
noun:  A village in Nebraska, having a population of two as of 2010.

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