• Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large. • Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate. • Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless. • Expressing, Or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure. • Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium. • Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence. • Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to net. • The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass. • The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens.