Adjective

(en adjective)

In the state of a solid; not fluid.

Large, massive.

Lacking holes or hollows; as solid gold, solid chocolate.

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, title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.}}

Strong or unyielding.

a solid foundation

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(slang) Excellent, of high quality, or reliable.

That's a solid plan.

Radiohead's on tour! Have you heard their latest album yet? It's quite solid .

I don't think Dave would have done that. He's a solid dude.

Hearty; filling.

a solid meal

Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial; not frivolous or fallacious.

* Milton

the solid purpose of a sincere and virtuous answer

* Dryden

These, wanting wit, affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.

* J. A. Symonds

The genius of the Italians wrought by solid toil what the myth-making imagination of the Germans had projected in a poem.

Sound; not weakly.

a solid constitution of body

(typography) Written as one word, without spaces or hyphens.

American English writes many words as solid that British English hyphenates.

(printing, dated) Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.

(US, politics, slang) United; without division; unanimous.

The delegation is solid for a candidate.

Of a single color throughout.

John painted the walls solid white.

He wore a solid shirt with floral pants.

(dated) Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic.

A solid''' foot contains 1,728 '''solid inches.

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.