Synonyms of gross

gross 1 of 4

adjective

1

as in obscene

depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society

he was thrown out of class for making a gross gesture

Synonyms & Similar Words

• obscene
• vulgar
• pornographic
• foul
• nasty
• dirty
• filthy
• unacceptable
• crude
• disgusting
• suggestive
• unpleasant
• blue
• indecent
• offensive
• coarse
• naughty
• obnoxious
• undesirable
• lascivious
• raunchy
• trashy
• unwanted
• lewd
• impure
• abusive
• smutty
• profane
• bawdy
• unprintable
• locker-room
• ribald
• wanton
• broad
• gutter
• stag
• porny
• infamous
• wicked
• repulsive
• X-rated
• low
• revolting
• perverted
• soft
• scatological
• salacious
• indelicate
• depraved
• repugnant
• off
• indecorous
• loathsome
• salty
• objectionable
• unbecoming
• unwelcome
• earthy
• abhorrent
• immodest
• gamy
• perverse
• coarse-grained
• racy
• kinky
• repellent
• barnyard
• distasteful
• off-colored
• risqué
• reprehensible
• atrocious
• exceptionable
• gamey
• off-color
• censurable
• repellant
• scurrilous
• blameworthy
• louche
• blamable
• debasing
• hard-core
• soft-core

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• clean
• wholesome
• decent
• correct
• proper
• puritanical
• prudish
• acceptable
• respectable
• priggish
• nice
• polite
• Victorian
• innocuous
• prim
• appropriate
• staid
• desirable
• decorous
• pleasant
• genteel
• inoffensive
• seemly
• nonobscene
• pure
• agreeable
• suitable
• G-rated
• welcome
• perfect
• meet
• pleasing
• becoming
• straightlaced
• straitlaced
• immaculate
• fit
• spotless
• virginal
• approved
• sanctioned
• endorsed
• indorsed

2

as in plump

having an excess of body fat

a very gross cat trying to squeeze through a small opening in the fence

Synonyms & Similar Words

• plump
• fat
• full
• round
• fleshy
• thick
• obese
• overweight
• heavy
• corpulent
• blubbery
• chubby
• pudgy
• husky
• stout
• ripe
• lardy
• rotund
• tubby
• podgy
• replete
• portly
• soft
• roly-poly
• bulky
• plumpish
• dumpy
• beefy
• squat
• hefty
• flabby
• chunky
• stocky
• weighty
• thickset
• burly
• stubby
• brawny
• heavyset
• ample
• paunchy
• potbellied
• hippy
• buxom
• corn-fed
• endomorphic
• zaftig
• zoftig

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• thin
• lean
• angular
• skinny
• bony
• slender
• spare
• skeletal
• gaunt
• slim
• lanky
• puny
• slight
• wasted
• sinewy
• haggard
• lank
• rawboned
• emaciated
• cadaverous
• pinched
• scrawny
• stringy
• weedy
• scraggy
• boney
• waspish
• spindly
• reedy
• svelte
• rangy
• twiggy
• willowy
• anorexic
• sylphlike
• spindling
• ectomorphic

3

as in crass

lacking in refinement or good taste

she haughtily refused to mix with what she called "the gross masses who are unappreciative of fine art"

Synonyms & Similar Words

• crass
• vulgar
• rude
• crude
• common
• coarse
• rough
• clumsy
• low
• uncouth
• lowbrow
• tasteless
• uncultured
• unpolished
• unrefined
• rugged
• uncultivated
• raffish
• insensible
• rough-hewn
• illiberal
• incult
• ill-bred
• lowbred
• ungentlemanly
• clownish
• boorish
• roughneck
• indelicate
• unsophisticated
• rustic
• thoughtless
• insensitive
• lumpish
• churlish
• loutish
• inconsiderate
• cloddish
• oafish
• rustical
• tacky
• lubberly
• provincial
• uncivilized
• inelegant
• barbaric
• barbarous
• countrified
• graceless
• unmannerly
• unmannered
• countryfied
• mannerless
• animallike

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• smooth
• civilized
• tasteful
• polished
• cultured
• refined
• genteel
• aristocratic
• cultivated
• sensitive
• elegant
• graceful
• restrained
• patrician
• well-bred
• courtly
• ultrarefined
• gracious
• sophisticated
• thoughtful
• considerate
• urbane
• citified

4

as in blatant

very noticeable especially for being incorrect or bad

a gross mistake that some proofreader should have caught

Synonyms & Similar Words

• blatant
• obvious
• glaring
• egregious
• flagrant
• conspicuous
• striking
• pronounced
• terrible
• patent
• outstanding
• sheer
• noticeable
• distinct
• rank
• dramatic
• clear
• remarkable
• marked
• notable
• salient
• monstrous
• utter
• outright
• downright
• plain
• shocking
• showy
• evident
• prominent
• emphatic
• absolute
• shameful
• outrageous
• heinous
• abominable
• visible
• detectable
• awful
• discernible
• deplorable
• discernable
• perceptible
• observable
• atrocious
• stark
• out-and-out
• splashy
• arrant
• eye-catching
• execrable
• preposterous
• arresting
• lousy
• wretched

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• inconspicuous
• imperceptible
• small
• insignificant
• unobtrusive
• trivial
• slight
• trifling
• inconsequential
• inconsiderable
• unnoticeable
• invisible
• hidden
• concealed

5

as in disgusting

causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment

the little boy insisted that worms are gross

Synonyms & Similar Words

• disgusting
• ugly
• sickening
• horrible
• awful
• hideous
• shocking
• obscene
• obnoxious
• offensive
• dreadful
• nasty
• unpleasant
• repulsive
• evil
• revolting
• appalling
• gruesome
• repugnant
• abominable
• loathsome
• horrid
• scandalous
• odious
• terrible
• abhorrent
• nauseating
• horrific
• horrendous
• foul
• repellent
• noxious
• distasteful
• nauseous
• rancid
• undesirable
• disturbing
• noisome
• vile
• fulsome
• repellant
• unwanted
• monstrous
• objectionable
• hateful
• horrifying
• miserable
• detestable
• disagreeable
• grim
• unhealthy
• unwholesome
• contemptible
• sick
• heinous
• despicable
• unspeakable
• brackish
• ghastly
• grisly
• atrocious
• unwelcome
• macabre
• nightmarish
• exceptionable
• unsavory
• frightful
• sickly
• lurid
• execrable
• lousy
• hard
• uncivilized
• dislikeable
• unholy
• ungodly
• dislikable
• barbarous
• upsetting
• sickish
• distressing
• unchristian
• off-putting
• grewsome

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• innocuous
• acceptable
• attractive
• sweet
• delicious
• desirable
• inoffensive
• pleasant
• delightful
• appealing
• gratifying
• satisfying
• nice
• agreeable
• heavenly
• alluring
• dreamy
• welcome
• enjoyable
• delectable
• congenial
• palatable
• pleasurable
• luscious
• pleasing
• likable
• savory
• likeable
• darling
• felicitous
• savoury
• inviting
• unobjectionable
• blessed
• dulcet
• healthy
• unexceptionable
• wholesome
• blest
• healthful
• salutary
• salubrious
• restorative
• delightsome

gross

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noun (1)

1

as in total

Synonyms & Similar Words

• total
• amount
• whole
• sum
• score
• count
• census
• recount
• tally
• tale

2

as in revenue

Synonyms & Similar Words

• revenue
• receipts
• income
• profit
• earnings
• payoff
• net
• proceeds
• gain
• return
• winnings
• bag
• spoils
• booty
• appropriation
• yield
• swag
• plunder
• haul
• loot
• catch
• collection
• bounty
• take

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• loss
• deduction
• subtraction

gross

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verb

as in to net

Synonyms & Similar Words

• net
• realize
• gain
• pull down
• obtain
• attain
• capture
• earn
• reap
• draw
• acquire
• win
• achieve
• bring in
• land
• procure
• garner
• come by
• accomplish
• secure
• carry
• knock down
• accumulate
• clear
• make
• score
• bag
• get
• amass
• notch (up)
• occupy
• catch
• rack up
• take over
• pick up
• annex
• regain
• recapture
• remake
• reattain
• reacquire

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• lose
• pay
• forfeit
• give
• grant
• yield
• accord
• give up
• surrender
• relinquish
• hand over
• part (with)

grossness

4 of 4

noun (2)

1

as in obesity

the condition of having an excess of body fat

the doctor warned that a high level of grossness is unhealthy

Synonyms & Similar Words

• obesity
• weight
• fatness
• corpulence
• fat
• rotundity
• chubbiness
• plumpness
• corpulency
• fattiness
• pudginess
• fleshiness
• adiposity
• embonpoint
• portliness
• heaviness
• bulkiness
• stoutness
• pursiness
• huskiness
• burliness
• brawniness
• endomorphy

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• thinness
• leanness
• slenderness
• slimness
• fitness
• trimness
• svelteness
• reediness
• gauntness
• weediness
• skinniness
• scrawniness

2

as in vulgarity

the quality or state of being obscene

a movie of such indisputable grossness that people who thought that they had seen everything were proven wrong

Synonyms & Similar Words

• vulgarity
• foulness
• crudeness
• suggestiveness
• dirtiness
• coarseness
• obscenity
• filth
• filthiness
• nastiness
• crudity
• lewdness
• impurity
• bawdiness
• lasciviousness
• lowness
• ribaldry
• profanity
• indecency
• offensiveness
• blueness
• smut
• abusiveness
• raunchiness
• wantonness
• distastefulness
• dirt
• raunch
• naughtiness
• broadness
• smuttiness
• atrocity
• indelicacy
• perversity
• undesirability
• impureness
• saltiness
• unpleasantness
• earthiness
• unacceptability
• wickedness
• depravity
• repulsiveness
• perversion
• raciness
• immodesty
• perverseness
• obnoxiousness
• repugnance
• lechery
• loathsomeness
• reprehensibility
• gaminess
• kinkiness
• infamy
• repellency
• indecorousness
• unbecomingness
• depravedness
• pervertedness
• objectionableness
• indelicateness
• atrociousness
• exceptionability
• reprehensibleness
• scurrilousness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• puritanism
• prudery
• prudishness
• primness
• priggishness
• decorum
• decency
• correctness
• seemliness
• appropriateness
• purity
• suitability
• fitness
• perfection
• suitableness
• priggery
• decorousness
• spotlessness

3

as in crassness

the quality or state of lacking refinement or good taste

the grossness of his table manners disgusted the other wedding guests

Synonyms & Similar Words

• crassness
• rudeness
• lowness
• roughness
• coarseness
• vulgarity
• crudeness
• commonness
• rawness
• tastelessness
• indelicacy
• crudity
• rusticity
• raffishness
• brutishness
• boorishness
• uncouthness
• churlishness
• rowdiness
• inelegance
• artlessness
• gracelessness
• insensitiveness
• loutishness
• clownishness
• tackiness
• indelicateness
• kitsch
• insensitivity
• unsophistication
• thoughtlessness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• cultivation
• refinement
• gentility
• polish
• urbanity
• tastefulness
• elegance
• grace
• sensitivity
• consideration
• graciousness
• courtliness
• genteelness
• thoughtfulness

Phrases Containing gross

• gross out