gross

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ɡɹəʊs/    美 /ɡɹoʊs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Twelve dozen = 144. countable,uncountable
    — We need to order three gross of torx screws for next week.
  2. The total amount (of goods, money, etc) before taxes, expenses, exceptions, tares, or similar deductions are subtracted. countable,uncountable
  3. The bulk; the mass. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To earn money, not including expenses. transitive
    — The movie grossed three million on the first weekend.
形容词 adj.
  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
  2. Excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.
    — gross domestic product; gross income; gross weight
  3. Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.
    — gross anatomy
  4. Causing disgust. Australia,Canada,US,informal
    — I threw up all over the bed. It was totally gross.
  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!
  6. Lacking refinement; not of high quality.
    — The flowers of Rubens are gross and rude […]
  7. Dense, heavy.
    — ⁠Thy spirit ere our fatal loss / ⁠Did ever rise from high to higher; / ⁠As mounts the heavenward altar-fire, / As flies the lighter thro’ the gross.
  8. Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.
    — Kitty noticed that her sister’s pregnancy had blunted her features and in her black dress she looked gross and blousy.
  9. Difficult or impossible to see through. poetic
    — Couragious Lancaster, imbrace thy king, / And as grosse vapours perish by the sunne, / Euen so let hatred with thy soueraigne smile,
  10. Not sensitive in perception or feeling. archaic
    — For he is groſſe and like the maſſie earth, / That mooues not vpwards, nor by princely deeds / Doth meane to ſoare aboue the highest ſort.
    Comus
  11. Easy to perceive. obsolete
    — […] though the truth of it stands off as gross / As black and white, my eye will scarcely see it.

词形变化

grosser comparative more gross comparative grossest superlative most gross superlative gross plural grosses plural grosses present,singular,third-person grossing participle,present grossed participle,past grossed past

词汇关系

衍生词
disgrossting grossify grossish grossology ungross grossen grossly

词源

词源 1
From Middle English gros (“large, thick, full-bodied; coarse, unrefined, simple”), from Old French gros, from Latin grossus (“big, fat, thick”, in Late Latin also “coarse, rough”), of uncertain further origin but perhaps related to Proto-Celtic *brassos (“great, violent”).
词源 2
From Middle English gros (“large, thick, full-bodied; coarse, unrefined, simple”), from Old French gros, from Latin grossus (“big, fat, thick”, in Late Latin also “coarse, rough”), of uncertain further origin but perhaps related to Proto-Celtic *brassos (“great, violent”).
词源 3
From Middle English gros (“large, thick, full-bodied; coarse, unrefined, simple”), from Old French gros, from Latin grossus (“big, fat, thick”, in Late Latin also “coarse, rough”), of uncertain further origin but perhaps related to Proto-Celtic *brassos (“great, violent”).
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