Word Finder - grossest

definition

(of behaviour considered to be wrong) Highly or conspicuously offensive.

example

a gross mistake;  gross injustice;  gross negligence; a gross insult

synonyms

• appalling
• egregious
• flagrant
• serious
• shameful

definition

(of an amount) Excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.

example

gross domestic product; gross income; gross weight

synonyms

• aggregate
• entire
• overall
• total
• whole

definition

Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.

example

gross anatomy

synonyms

• macroscopic

definition

Causing disgust.

example

I threw up all over the bed. It was totally gross.

synonyms

• disgusting
• gro
• grody
• grotty
• nasty
• revolting
• yucky

definition

Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.

synonyms

• coarse
• impure
• obscene
• rude
• vulgar

definition

(of a product) Lacking refinement; not of high quality.

synonyms

• coarse
• rough
• unrefined

definition

(of a person) Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.

synonyms

• bulky
• fat
• great
• large
• obese

definition

Not sensitive in perception or feeling.

synonyms

• dull
• witless

definition

Difficult or impossible to see through.

synonyms

• heavy
• thick

definition

Easy to perceive.

synonyms

• clear
• obvious

Voltaire and the encyclopaedists with whom she corresponded, and on whom she conferred gifts and pensions, repaid her by the grossest flattery, while doing their best to profit by her generosity.

They have little value from a purely literary point of view, and many of them are disfigured by the grossest obscenity.

The Afghans, inured to bloodshed from childhood, are familiar with death, and audacious in attack, but easily discouraged by failure; excessively turbulent and unsubmissive to law or discipline; apparently frank and affable in manner, especially when they hope to gain some object, but capable of the grossest brutality when that hope ceases.

John (Johann Bockelson) of Leiden (1510-1536) took his place and the town became the scene of the grossest licence and cruelty, until in 1535 it was taken by the besieging bishop. Unhappily the Anabaptists have always been remembered by the crimes of John of Leiden and the revelry of Munster.

The government of Count Taaffe, in recognition of this concession by the Bohemians, consented to remove some of the grossest anomalies connected with the electoral system of Bohemia, which had hitherto been grossly partial to the German minority of the population.

He saw that things in this world were in a constant flux, so that no society could remain long in the same state, and that " the grossest absurdities " must be the issue of " following custom when reason has left the custom."

I should be guilty of the grossest ingratitude if I did not give Miss Morris a special mention.

Originating probably, in the observation of the fertilizing effect of rains and streams upon the receptive and reproductive soil, baalism becomes identical with the grossest nature-worship. Joined with the baals there are naturally found corresponding female figures known as Ashtaroth, embodiments of Ashtoreth (see Astarte; Ishtar).

In the winter of1850-1851Gladstone spent between three and four months at Naples, where he learned that more than half the chamber of deputies, who had followed the party of Opposition, had been banished or imprisoned; that a large number, probably not less than 20,000, of the citizens had been imprisoned on charges of political disaffection, and that in prison they were subjected to the grossest cruelties.

Finally, as for salt, that grossest of groceries, to obtain this might be a fit occasion for a visit to the seashore, or, if I did without it altogether, I should probably drink the less water.

It was characterized by the grossest symbolism, in honour of the fertility of nature.

These, the grossest and most deficient of all forms, are also divided into ten degrees, each lower than the other.

But his reign was one continued series of the grossest enormities; his hostility to the British became evident, and accordingly a force of 10,500 men crossed the Runn in November 1815, and were within five miles of Bhuj, the capital of the country, when a treaty was concluded, by which the rao Bharmulji was confirmed in his title to the throne, on agreeing, among other stipulations, to cede Anjar and its dependencies in perpetuity to the British.

He did not succeed in his mission; he was subjected to the grossest insults; and under compulsion signed a treaty giving over the disputed territory to Bhutan, and making other concessions which the Bhutan government demanded.

The evil reputation of these festivals, at which the grossest debaucheries took place, and all kinds of crimes and political conspiracies were supposed to be planned, led in 186 B.C. to a decree of the senate - the so-called Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus, inscribed on a bronze tablet discovered in Calabria (1640), now at Vienna - by which the Bacchanalia were prohibited throughout the whole of Italy, except in certain special cases, in which the senate reserved the right of allowing them, subject to certain restrictions.

Unfortunately, in the time that followed, Urban was guilty of the grossest errors, pursuing his personal interests, and sacrificing, all too soon, that universal point of view which ought to have governed his policy.