Egregious vs Gross - What's the difference?
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Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
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* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
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Outrageously bad; shocking.
(US, slang) Disgusting.
Coarse, rude, vulgar, obscene, or impure.
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, title= Great, large, bulky, or fat.
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Great, serious, flagrant, or shameful.
The whole amount; entire; total before any deductions.
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, title= Not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.
* Milton
Twelve dozen = 144.
The total nominal earnings or amount, before taxes, expenses, exceptions or similar are deducted. That which remains after all deductions is called net.
The bulk, the mass, the masses.
To earn money, not including expenses.
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As an adjective egregious
is exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.As a proper noun gross is
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The student has made egregious errors on the examination.
- I cannot cross my arms, or sigh "Ah me," / "Ah me forlorn!" egregious foppery! / I cannot buss thy fill, play with thy hair, / Swearing by Jove, "Thou art most debonnaire!"
- My lord, you give me most egregious indignity.
- When the goal is simply to be as faithful as possible to the material—as if a movie were a marriage, and a rights contract the vow—the best result is a skillful abridgment, one that hits all the important marks without losing anything egregious .
Usage notes
The negative meaning arose in the late 16th century, probably originating in sarcasm. Before that, it meant outstanding in a good way. Webster also gives “distinguished” as an archaic form, and notes that its present form often has an unpleasant connotation (e.g., "an egregious error" ). It generally precedes such epithets as “rogue,” “rascal,” "ass," “blunderer”.gross
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- But man to know God is a difficulty, except by a mean he himself inure, which is to know God’s creatures that be: at first them that be of the grossest nature, and then [...] them that be more pure.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross . Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
- He collected a number of injuries that stopped him jousting, and then in middle age became stout, eventually gross .
Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
- Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear.
Synonyms
* (disgusting) (l), (l), (l) * (fat) See alsoAntonyms
* fine * (total before any deductions) netNoun
(en-noun)Verb
(es)- The movie gross ed three million on the first weekend.
