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grosser

grosser

5 3.7
More disgusting or unpleasant than something else
  • adjective
  • /ˈɡroʊsər/
  • Informal
translation icon : más asqueroso
  • I remember a joke my friend would tell every now and again: "Q. What's grosser than gross?"
  • even grosser
  • way grosser

McDonald's clear the second, the runner up for the grossest milkshake ever.

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Examples

  • He is the grossest person imaginable.

  • As far as the *gross* factor, there are much grosser things shown in the news all the time.

    Blog text (4)
  • Yeah, I think a lot grosser things happen in Walmart bathrooms.

  • Nah, East Village poseur was grosser than the dude in the park.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • I just think this is the grossest revelation of Trumpism is how many people have sold out.

  • So a bigger, grosser train wreck of a family has come along to steal your thunder and you're jealous?

    Blog text (19)
  • I won't sicken you or myself by recounting the grosser details, but I was taking a cab to my office, and my driver tried to beat out one red light too many.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • We've stayed in nicer hostels and grosser ones, met fun people and kind of weird people, eaten good food and not so good food, taken warm showers and very cold showers.

    Blog text (23)
  • The food was so old that it looked grosser than anything I had ever seen.

  • When he described the incident, it became grosser with every detail.

Synonyms

disgusting
vsgrosser
531 1.3

Causing a strong feeling of dislike or making you feel sick

is even more intense in causing revulsion than that
nasty
vsgrosser
282 1.0

Very dirty and covered with things that smell bad

is more about being deeply offensive rather than only physically dirty
gross
vsgrosser
  • Informal
280 2.3

Very unpleasant and making you feel sick or disgusted

is more unpleasant or offensive than that
horrid
vsgrosser
52 4.1

A very unpleasant thing that shocks or disgusts you

is more intensely unpleasant or offensive rather than shocking
disgustful
vsgrosser
6.7

Causing a strong feeling of dislike or making people feel sick

is stronger in being offensive or repellent than that
icky-poo
vsgrosser
  • Informal
9.9

Feels unpleasant and gross, often sticky or smelly

is more strongly unpleasant or offensive than that

How Disgusting

repulsive
59 5.5
grosser
  • Informal
5 3.7
gross
  • Informal
280 2.3
unpleasant
215 1.0

Surface Forms

grosser comparative
gross positive
grossest superlative

Morphology

grosser = gross (transparent) = gross + er

Regular comparative formation from the adjective 'gross' using the productive suffix '-er'.

Etymology

Grosser is the comparative form of gross, a word from old European speech that meant 'thick' or 'coarse'. So when something is grosser it feels more disgusting or unpleasant.