gross

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

adj. bulky, large, fat, obese; coarse, crass; brutish, callous, unrefined, insensitive; vulgar, crude, obscene; total, whole; flagrant. See vulgarity, size, impurity, inelegance.

II

(Roget's IV) modif.

1. [Fat]

Syn. corpulent, obese, porcine; see fat 1 .

2. [Obscene]

Syn. foul, offensive, indecent; see lewd 1 , 2 .

3. [Coarse]

Syn. crude, unrefined, crass; see coarse 2 , rude 1 , vulgar 1 .

4. [Without deduction]

Syn. in sum, total, entire; see whole 1 .

5. [Flagrant]

Syn. obvious, out-and-out, patent; see obvious 1 .

6. [Disgusting]

Syn. repugnant, revolting, sickening; see offensive 2 .

See Synonym Study at coarse . n.

Syn. total, aggregate, sum total, total amount; see whole .

v.

Syn. earn, bring in, take in; see earn 2 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.

1. disgusting, indelicate vulgar, foul, crude, indecent, obscene, *out ofthe gutter, *barnyard, unseemly, tasteless, offensive.

2. total whole, aggregate, comprehensive, all, before taxes.

3. flagrant blatant, obvious, glaring, apparent, outrageous, egregious, shocking, heinous, plain, shameful.

4. obese fat, overweight, big, corpulent, stout, burly, *blubbery.

ANT.: 1. seemly, tasteful, decent. 2. net, after taxes, take-home. 3. subtle, minor. 4. skinny, anorexic

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) I adjective 1. Including every constituent or individual: all, complete, entire, total, whole. See PART. 2. Conspicuously bad or offensive: arrant, capital, egregious, flagrant, glaring, rank2. See GOOD. 3. Lacking in delicacy or refinement: barbarian, barbaric, boorish, churlish, coarse, crass, crude, ill-bred, indelicate, philistine, rough, rude, tasteless, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar. See COURTESY, SMOOTH. 4. Offensive to accepted standards of decency: barnyard, bawdy, broad, coarse, dirty, Fescennine, filthy, foul, lewd, nasty, obscene, profane, ribald, scat-ologic, scatological, scurrilous, smutty, vulgar. Slang: raunchy. See DECENT. 5. Having too much flesh: corpulent, fat, fatty, fleshy, obese, overblown, overweight, porcine, portly, stout, weighty. See FAT. II noun An amount or quantity from which nothing is left out or held back: aggregate, all, entirety, everything, sum, total, totality, whole. Informal: work (used in plural). Idioms: everything but (or except) the kitchen sink; lock, stock, and barrel; the whole ball of wax (or kit and caboodle or megillah or nine yards or shebang). See PART. III verb To make as income or profit: bring in, clear, draw, earn, gain, net2, pay, produce, realize, repay, return, yield. See MONEY.