# gross

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ɡɹəʊs/ · frequency rank #3,305

## Definitions
1. Highly or conspicuously offensive.
2. Of an amount: excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.
3. Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.
4. Causing disgust.
5. Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.
6. Lacking refinement; not of high quality.
7. Dense, heavy.
8. Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.
9. Difficult or impossible to see through.
10. Not sensitive in perception or feeling.
11. Easy to perceive.

## Etymology
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”).

## Easily confused with
- **grow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gross-vs-grow)
- **group** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gross-vs-group)
- **guess** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gross-vs-guess)
- **grown** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gross-vs-grown)
- **grows** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gross-vs-grows)
- **grove** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gross-vs-grove)
- **growl** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gross-vs-growl)
- **grout** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gross-vs-grout)
- **groups** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gross-vs-groups)
- **groves** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gross-vs-groves)
- **grouse** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gross-vs-grouse)
- **growls** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gross-vs-growls)
- **grosse** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gross-vs-grosse)
- **grossly** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gross-vs-grossly)
- **grossed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gross-vs-grossed)
- **grosser** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gross-vs-grosser)
- **gro** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gro-vs-gross)
- **goes** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/goes-vs-gross)
- **gods** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gods-vs-gross)
- **gosh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gosh-vs-gross)

## Common misspellings (6)
`ggross`, `gorss`, `gros`, `grross`, `grsos`, `rgoss`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/gross