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heinous, manifest, evident: Her conviction was a gross
miscarriage of justice. 5 disgusting, repulsive, repellent,
revolting, nauseating: His table manners are truly gross.
--v. 6 earn, bring or take in, make: We grossed over a million
but netted only 50,000 after expenses.
--n. 7 (overall) total, take, intake, takings, receipts, gate:
As I said, the gross was over a million.
grotesque adj. 1 distorted, bizarre, freakish, twisted, misshapen,
malformed, deformed, gruesome, gnarled: Victor Hugo created the
character of Quasimodo, the grotesque bell-ringer of Notre Dame.
2 absurd, incongruous, weird, odd, fantastic, strange, queer,
peculiar, curious, outlandish, offbeat, abnormal, aberrant,
anomalous, ludicrous, ridiculous, preposterous: The idea of
marrying Leonard is too grotesque for even Gladys to
contemplate.
ground n. 1 earth, soil, turf, sod, dirt, loam, clay; land, terrain:
There is a great hole in the ground behind my house. 2
territory, area, range, scope, compass: We covered the ground
quite thoroughly at our meeting. 3 Often, grounds. basis,
foundation, base, reason, footing, justification, rationale,
argument, cause, motive, excuse: What are her grounds for suing
for divorce? 4 grounds. sediment, dregs, lees, deposit,
settlings, Brit grouts: Filter out the grounds before drinking
the coffee.
--v. 5 base, establish, organize, found; settle, set: The
school's philosophy is grounded on the principles of Maria
Montessori. 6 instruct, teach, train, coach, tutor, inform,
prepare, initiate: The purpose of the course is to ground
students in basic mathematics.
groundless
adj. baseless, without foundation, unsound, unfounded,
unsupported, unjustified, unjustifiable, unwarranted,
uncalled-for, gratuitous, unreasoned, unreasonable, speculative,
suppositional, hypothetical, tenuous, flimsy, illusory,
imaginary, chimerical: Assumptions that the boy is guilty are
entirely groundless.