Definitions for grosser

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grosser gross·er

Spelling: [groh-ser]

IPA: /ˈgroʊ sər/

Grosser is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 94 anagrams from letters in grosser (egorrss).

Definitions for grosser

noun

1. a commercial production, as a motion picture or record, that generates a large amount of income.
2. a group of 12 dozen, or 144, things. Abbreviation: gro.
3. total income from sales, salary, etc., before any deductions (opposed to net2 (def 5.)).
4. Obsolete. the main body, bulk, or mass.

adjective

1. without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like (opposed to net2. ):
2. unqualified; complete; rank:
3. flagrant and extreme:
4. indelicate, indecent, obscene, or vulgar:
5. lacking in refinement, good manners, education, etc.; unrefined.
6. large, big, or bulky.
7. extremely or excessively fat.
8. thick; dense; heavy:
9. of or concerning only the broadest or most general considerations, aspects, etc.
10. Slang. extremely objectionable, offensive, or disgusting:

Verb phrases

1. gross out, Slang. to disgust or offend, especially by crude language or behavior. to shock or horrify.

verb (used with object)

1. to have, make, or earn as a total before any deductions, as of taxes, expenses, etc.:

Origin of grosser

First recorded in 1955-60; gross + -er¹

Examples for grosser

In its grosser form as a problem of serious crime it is already upon us.

He kept himself from the grosser temptations of the country.

I needed her indomitable frailness to prop my grosser strength.

Her production of a man-child was the further and grosser offence.

Justice, in her grosser as in her finer form, is concerned with the finding of the truth.

But time and excess, that have quickened his grosser senses, have blunted his imagination.

"The improbability" might be "grosser" if the Iliad had been composed in a day!

I almost wish you were of a grosser nature, Harry; in truth I do!

But what shall be said of the second or grosser of these artifices?

I suggested that the children be sent to the grosser Garten to play.