Synonyms for gross
- adjective
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Flagrant — remarkably great, big, vast in an often unpleasant way; (of behaviour) Highly or conspicuously offensive
flagrant, egregious, shameful, unmitigated, glaring, blatant, outrageous, grievous, serious, appalling, sordid, unseemly, crying, rank informal dated
2. Vulgar — lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality
vulgar, obscene, crude, rude, crass, indecent, earthy, impure, low, tasteless, indelicate, smutty, ribald, scurrilous, sensual, gaudy, broad dated
3. Nasty — causing disgust
nasty, disgusting, grotesque, icky informal, filthy, revolting, yucky informal, fulsome, lousy, obnoxious, grotty slang UK IE
4. Stark
stark, utter, perfect, unadulterated, complete, thorough-going, staring, double-dyed, thorough, consummate, everlasting, arrant dated, sodding vulgar UK IE
Other
total, overall, aggregate, large, coarse, great, gurt UK, whole, rough, thick, entire, unrefined, big
Noun
Definitions
- 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
- adj. 2
Causing disgust.
I threw up all over the bed. It was totally gross.
- adj. 3
Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.
- n. 1
Twelve dozen = 144.
We need to order three gross of torx screws for next week.
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- grosses → revenues…
Example sentences
- shameful The love that I suffer from is a shameful disease.
- egregious This is an egregious example of tax avoidance.
- flagrant This is yet another example of flagrant abuse of power.
- unmitigated Few things can match the unmitigated fury of child preachers.
- crude Crude persuasion is to persistently egg someone on.
- crass Tom's boss's behaviour smacked of crass arrogance.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| gross | falling | |
| shameful | rising | |
| egregious | rising | |
| flagrant | falling | |
| unmitigated | rising | |
| crude | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- big1, low1
- 4 letters
- rank1, rude1, icky, gurt
- 5 letters
- great1, whole1, large1, total2, broad1, rough1, thick1, nasty2, crude1, stark1, utter2, lousy2, crass1, gaudy2
- 6 letters
- entire3, crying2, filthy2, vulgar2, coarse1, sordid2, earthy2, impure2, smutty2, ribald2, grotty, arrant2
- 7 letters
- perfect2, serious3, overall3, revenue3, staring2, blatant2, obscene2, sensual3, glaring2, fulsome2, sodding
- 8 letters
- complete2, thorough2, shameful2, grievous2, indecent3, flagrant2, unseemly3
- 9 letters
- aggregate3, appalling3, obnoxious3, grotesque2, egregious3, tasteless2, revolting3, unrefined3
- 10 letters
- disgusting3, outrageous3, consummate3, scurrilous3, indelicate4
- 11 letters
- everlasting4, unmitigated5
- 13 letters
- unadulterated6
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (total2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- dégueulasse
- Español
- nauseabundo
- Català
- fastigós