What is the meaning of gross?

noun

• Twelve dozen.
  • synonyms: 144
• The entire amount of income before any deductions are made.
  • synonyms: revenue, receipts

verb

• Earn before taxes, expenses, etc..

adjective

• Before any deductions.
  • usage: "gross income"
• Lacking fine distinctions or detail.
  • usage: "the gross details of the structure appear reasonable"
• Repellently fat.
  • usage: "a bald porcine old man"
  • synonyms: porcine
• Visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features.
  • synonyms: megascopic
• Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers.
  • usage: "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth"
  • synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, perfect, pure, sodding, stark, staring, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated
• Conspicuously and tastelessly indecent.
  • usage: "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"
  • synonyms: crude, earthy, vulgar
• Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible.
  • usage: "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery"
  • synonyms: crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, rank