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More at great." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "gross (comparative grosser or more gross, superlative grossest or most gross)\n\n (of behaviour considered to be wrong) Highly or conspicuously offensive.\nSynonyms: serious, flagrant, shameful, appalling, egregious.\na gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence; a gross insult\n1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Henry IV. My gracious uncle, let me know my faultOn what condition stands it and wherein?Edmund of Langley. Even in condition of the worst degree,In gross rebellion and detested treason\n1682, Aphra Behn, The City-Heiress, London: D. Brown et al., Act IV, Scene 1, p.40,\nYour very faults, how gross soere, to me\nHave something pleasing in ’em.\n1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 10, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London A Millar,, →OCLC, book 18, page 336: I thank Heaven I have had Time to reflect on my past Life, where though I cannot charge myself with any gross Villainy, yet I can discern Follies and Vices too sufficient to repent and to be ashamed of;\n1813 January 27, , Pride and Prejudice, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London for T Egerton, →OCLC: had his actions been what Wickham represented them, so gross a violation of every thing right could hardly have been concealed from the world;\n1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, chapter 6, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y. Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC: he has been found guilty, on the clearest evidence, first, of stealing a valuable motor-car; secondly, of driving to the public danger; and, thirdly, of gross impertinence to the rural police.\n (of an amount) Excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.\nSynonyms: whole, entire, overall, total, aggregate\nAntonym: net\ngross domestic product; gross income; gross weight\nc. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth,”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, Tragedies (First Folio), London Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :What is the gross sum that I owe thee?\n1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, Book 6, Chapter1,\nFor a man of his habits the house and the hundred and twenty pounds a year which he had inherited from his mother were enough to supply all worldly needs. Resources do not depend upon gross amounts, but upon the proportion of spendings to takings.\n1937, George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, Penguin, 1962, Part 1, Chapter 3, p.37,\n please notice that even these wretched earnings are gross earnings. On top of this there are all kinds of stoppages which are deducted from the miner’s wages every week.\n (sciences,pathology) Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.\nSynonym: macroscopic\nAntonym: microscopic\ngross anatomy\n1962, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Chapter 12, p.190,\nWe are accustomed to look for the gross and immediate effect and to ignore all else. Unless this appears promptly and in such obvious form that it cannot be ignored, we deny the existence of hazard.\n (slang,Canada, US,Australia) Causing disgust.\nSynonyms: disgusting, gro, grody, grotesque, grotty, nasty, revolting, yucky\nI threw up all over the bed. It was totally gross.\n1978, Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, New York: Harper Row, 1989, “Ties That Bind,” p.293,\nMary Ann spent her lunch hour at Hastings, picking out just the right tie for Norman. The hint might not be terribly subtle, she decided, but somebody had to do something about that gross, gravy-stained clip-on number.\n2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, New York: Picador, Book 3, p.306,\nThe next-door neighbor’s cat coughed up a hairball one day and the hair was not the cat’s. “That’s so gross!”\n Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.\nSynonyms: coarse, rude, vulgar, obscene, impure\n1633, John Ford, 'Tis Pity Shee's a Whoore, page 498: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!\n1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, Act I, Scene 1, \nVerjuice. She certainly has Talents.\nLady Sneerwell. But her manner is gross.\n1874: Dodsley et al., A Select Collection of Old English Plays\nBut man to know God is a difficulty, except by a mean he himself inure, which is to know God’s creatures that be: at first them that be of the grossest nature, and then them that be more pure.\n1918, W B Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.\n(of a product) Lacking refinement; not of high quality.\nSynonyms: coarse, rough, unrefined\nAntonym: fine\n1860, John Ruskin, Modern Painters, volume V (parts VI–IX), London Smith, Elder, and Co.,, §5:The flowers of Rubens are gross and rude \n1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, “Lorenzo Was Registered,” \nHe scorned my wholesome kennel fare, toothing out dainties and leaving the grosser portions to be finished by the other dogs.\n(of a person) Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.\nSynonyms: great, large, bulky, fat, obese\n1925, W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil, London: Heinemann, 1934, Chapter79,\nKitty noticed that her sister’s pregnancy had blunted her features and in her black dress she looked gross and blousy.\n2013, Hilary Mantel, ‘Royal Bodies’, London Review of Books, 35.IV:\nHe collected a number of injuries that stopped him jousting, and then in middle age became stout, eventually gross.\n(nowchieflypoetic) Difficult or impossible to see through.\nSynonyms: thick, heavy\n1594 (first publication), Christopher Marlow, The Trovblesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edvvard the Second, King of England:, London for Henry Bell,, published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):Couragious Lancaster, imbrace thy king,And as grosse vapours perish by the sunne,Euen so let hatred with thy soueraigne smile,\n1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London Robert Barker,, →OCLC, Isaiah 602:For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.\n1785, William Cowper, The Task, London: J. Johnson, Book 3, p.116,\nA pestilent and most corrosive steam,\nLike a gross fog Boeotian, rising fast,\nAnd fast condensed upon the dewy sash,\nAsks egress;\n1870, James Russell Lowell, The Cathedral, Boston: Fields, Osgood, p.34,\n a larger life\nUpon his own impinging, with swift glimpse\nOf spacious circles luminous with mind,\nTo which the ethereal substance of his own\nSeems but gross cloud to make that visible,\nTouched to a sudden glory round the edge.\n(archaic) Not sensitive in perception or feeling.\nSynonyms: dull, witless\nc. 1587–1588, , Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part, part 1, 2nd edition, London Richard Iones,, published 1592, →OCLC reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:For he is groſſe and like the maſſie earth,That mooues not vpwards, nor by princely deedsDoth meane to ſoare aboue the highest ſort.\n1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London Robert Barker,, →OCLC, Matthew 1315:For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.\n1634 October 9 (first performance), , H Lawes, editor, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: Comus, London Augustine Matthews for Hvmphrey Robinson,, published 1637, →OCLC reprinted as Comus: (Dodd, Mead Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series no. I), New York, N.Y. Dodd, Mead Company, 1903, →OCLC:A thousand liveried Angels lacky her ,Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt,And in cleer dream, and solemn visionTell her of things that no gross ear can hear.read online\n(obsolete) Easy to perceive.\nSynonyms: obvious, clear\n1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, Tragedies (First Folio), London Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, : though the truth of it stands off as grossAs black and white, my eye will scarcely see it." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Twelve dozen = 144." }, { "mean": "The total nominal earnings or amount, before taxes, expenses, exceptions or similar are deducted. That which remains after all deductions is called net." }, { "mean": "The bulk, the mass, the masses." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To earn money, not including expenses.\nThe movie grossed three million on the first weekend.\n2014 January 21, Hermione Hoby, “Julia Roberts interview for August: Osage County – 'I might actually go to hell for this ...': Julia Roberts reveals why her violent, Oscar-nominated performance in August: Osage County made her feel 'like a terrible person' ”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)‎:The film grossed $464 million worldwide, ensconcing her in the Hollywood A-list." } ] }, { "name": "Related_terms", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "engross\ngrocer, grocery, groceries" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "관련_용어", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }