gross vs pretty

gross

adj
  • Causing disgust. 

  • Lacking refinement; not of high quality. 

  • Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality. 

  • Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh. 

  • Highly or conspicuously offensive. 

  • Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed. 

  • Excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts. 

  • Difficult or impossible to see through. 

verb
  • To earn money, not including expenses. 

noun
  • The total nominal earnings or amount, before taxes, expenses, exceptions or similar are deducted. That which remains after all deductions is called net. 

  • Twelve dozen = 144. 

  • The bulk, the mass, the masses. 

pretty

adj
  • Awkward, unpleasant. 

  • Cunning; clever, skilful. 

  • Fine-looking; only superficially attractive; initially appealing but having little substance; see petty. 

  • Of objects or things: nice-looking, appealing. 

  • Pleasant to the sight or other senses; attractive, especially of women or children. 

noun
  • Something that is pretty. 

  • A pretty person; a term of address to a pretty person. 

adv
  • Somewhat, fairly, quite; sometimes also (by meiosis) very. 

  • Prettily, in a pretty manner. 

verb
  • To make pretty; to beautify 

How often have the words gross and pretty occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )