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gross

Definition for gross

adjective as in without deductions; total

adjective as in large, bulky

adjective as in causing disgust

noun as in total amount

Strong matches

aggregate, entirety, sum, totality

Weak matches

all, sum total

verb as in bring in as total

Strong matches

earn, make

Weak match

take in

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Example Sentences

In its Q3 update, Klarna wrote that it saw 43 percent growth in gross merchandise volume during the first nine months of the year.

Besides Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke and Howl’s Moving Castle—both from Studio Ghibli—as well as Makoto Shinkai’s 2016 hit project Your Name have ranked in Japan’s top 10 highest-grossing films.

From Time

Giants like Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft collectively hold more than $570 billion in gross cash.

House Bill 6187 would impose a flat 10% tax on gross revenues from digital ad sales inside the state by companies with annual global revenues exceeding $10 billion.

From Digiday

Much of that was due to Detective Chinatown 3, a heist comedy made in China, which grossed $424 million on its own.

From Quartz

World GDP (including North Pole toyshop gross output) is $84.97 trillion.

In its opening weekend the movie Heaven Is For Real (budget: $12 million) doubled its gross.

The sex workers I spoke with rightly call it “vile,” “gross,” “terrifying,” and “exploitative.”

The film was made with a reported $90 million but imploded with a $39 million domestic gross.

Insult to injury, its $43 million gross was less than one-fifth of what Ted took in.

Life is represented as struggling to free herself from the gross earthly forms that cling to her.

Does a friend come and add to the gross character of such a man the unknown trait of disgusting gluttony?

All these gross absurdities show, that the real spirit has nothing whatever to do with such absurd doctrines or productions.

When the hern or bitron flies low, the air is gross, and thickening into showers.

To abandon any part of the inheritance of primitive times would be gross heresy, a fatal dereliction of Christian duty.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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