Antonyms for gross

Antonyms for (adj) gross

Main entry: gross

Definition: before any deductions

Usage: gross income

Antonyms: net, nett

Definition: remaining after all deductions


Main entry: gross, porcine

Definition: repellently fat

Usage: a bald porcine old man

Antonyms: thin, lean

Definition: lacking excess flesh


Main entry: gross

Definition: lacking fine distinctions or detail

Usage: the gross details of the structure appear reasonable

Antonyms: particular, specific

Definition: a fact about some part (as opposed to general)


Antonyms: specific

Definition: (sometimes followed by `to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique


Antonyms: local

Definition: affecting only a restricted part or area of the body


Main entry: megascopic, gross

Definition: visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features)

Antonyms: unseeable, invisible

Definition: impossible or nearly impossible to see; imperceptible by the eye


Main entry: flagrant, rank, egregious, crying, glaring, gross

Definition: conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible

Usage: a crying shame; an egregious lie; flagrant violation of human rights; a glaring error; gross ineptitude; gross injustice; rank treachery

Antonyms: inconspicuous, invisible

Definition: not prominent or readily noticeable


Main entry: gross, earthy, crude, vulgar

Definition: conspicuously and tastelessly indecent

Usage: coarse language; a crude joke; crude behavior; an earthy sense of humor; a revoltingly gross expletive; a vulgar gesture; full of language so vulgar it should have been edited

Antonyms: decent

Definition: conforming to conventions of sexual behavior


Main entry: unadulterated, thoroughgoing, staring, stark, sodding, utter, complete, everlasting, perfect, arrant, pure, gross, consummate, double-dyed

Definition: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers

Usage: an arrant fool; a complete coward; a consummate fool; a double-dyed villain; gross negligence; a perfect idiot; pure folly; what a sodding mess; stark staring mad; a thoroughgoing villain; utter nonsense; the unadulterated truth

Antonyms: mitigated

Definition: made less severe or intense


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