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What (who) is grossness - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Gross (disambiguation); Grossness; In gross
grossness
n.
1.
Greatness, bulkiness, bigness.
2.
Density, thickness.
3.
Coarseness, rudeness, vulgarity, want of refinement, ill-breeding.
4.
Indelicacy, impurity, coarseness, licentiousness, sensuality, brutality, bestiality, carnality.
Grossness
·noun The state or quality of being gross; thickness; corpulence; coarseness; shamefulness.
Gross
·superl Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.
II. Gross ·adj The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass.
III. Gross ·superl Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium.
IV. Gross ·superl Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.
V. Gross ·superl Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.
VI. Gross (·sg & ·pl) The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens.
VII. Gross ·superl Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence.
VIII. Gross ·superl Expressing, Or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure.
IX. Gross ·superl Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight;
- opposed to net.
Examples of use of grossness
1. Is this the kind of grossness we must expect from our role models now?
2. "There was this mold, this grossness all over it," McGaw says, recalling how she found the car, her college graduation present, three months after the storm submerged her New Orleans neighborhood.
3. He was sometimes reviewed more in sorrow than in anger: such talents, allied with such grossness – this was often the tone of literary criticism of him and his work.
4. For some time now, I‘ve been Prime Minister but I want to talk to you today about a problem that‘s subjugating Britain to a frankly appalling level of grossness.
5. True, these magazines are not nice publications, but when I have looked, the content has invariably been more pitiful than outrageous: expressions of mingled yearning and disgust for celebrity slappers their readers will never meet, interspersed with sport, grossness, comedy heroics ("Loaded wrestles 650lb bear") and, more realistically, consumer articles about cars and other machines.