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Gross vs Outright - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between gross and outright

is that gross is disgusting while outright is unqualified and unreserved.

As verbs the difference between gross and outright

is that gross is to earn money, not including expenses while outright is to release a player outright, without conditions.

As a noun gross

is twelve dozen = 144.

As a proper noun Gross

is {{surname|from=Middle English}}, originally a nickname for a big man, from Middle English {{term|gros||large|lang=enm}}.

As an adverb outright is

wholly, completely and entirely.

gross

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • (US, slang) Disgusting.
  • Coarse, rude, vulgar, obscene, or impure.
  • * 1874 : Dodsley et al., A Select Collection of Old English Plays
    • 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.
  • * , chapter=12
    • , title= 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.}}
  • Great, large, bulky, or fat.
  • * 2013 , (Hilary Mantel), ‘Royal Bodies’, London Review of Books , 35.IV:
    • He collected a number of injuries that stopped him jousting, and then in middle age became stout, eventually gross .
  • Great, serious, flagrant, or shameful.
  • The whole amount; entire; total before any deductions.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= 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.}}
  • Not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.
  • * Milton
    • Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear.

    Synonyms

    * (disgusting) (l), (l), (l) * (fat) See also

    Antonyms

    * fine * (total before any deductions) net

    Related terms

    * gro * grody * gross out

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • 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.

    • Verb

    (es)
  • To earn money, not including expenses.
    • The movie gross ed three million on the first weekend.
  • * '>citation

    • Related terms

    * engross * grocer, grocery, groceries

    Derived terms

    * gross receipts * gross weight * gross income ----

    outright

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • Wholly, completely and entirely.
    • I refute those allegations outright .
  • Openly and without reservation.
    • I have just responded outright to that question.
  • At once.
    • Two people died outright and one more later.
  • With no outstanding conditions.
    • I have bought the house outright .
  • (informal) Blatantly; inexcusably.
    • That was an outright stupid thing to say.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Unqualified and unreserved.
    • I demand an outright apology.
  • Total or complete.
    • We achieved outright domination.
    Truths, half truths and outright lies.
    With little effort they found dozens of outright lies.
    He found a pattern of non-transparency and outright deception.
  • Having no outstanding conditions.
  • * Deutsche Bundesbank, Outright transactions
    • According to the general rules for Eurosystem monetary policy instruments and procedures, the outright' purchase and sale of securities on the market (' outright transactions) are among the standard open market operations used within the Eurosystem’s monetary policy framework.
    I made an outright purchase of the house.
    They don't seek outright independence, but rather greater autonomy.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (sports) To release a player , without conditions.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 30, author=Ben Shpigel, title=Martínez to Audition for Mets’ Brain Trust, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Sandy Alomar Jr. cleared waivers and was outrighted to Class AA Binghamton in preparation for his promotion when rosters expand Saturday. }}