4. train, coach, break in; initiate, ground, prepare; ready, prime, harden, inure; teach, instruct, tutor, school, inform, enlighten, edify, groove, n. 1. indentation, hollow, furrow, gouge, stria; flute, trench, channel, trough, canal, Archit. glyph.
2. routine, habit, rut, Inf. grind or daily grind; treadmill, squirrel cage, jog trot, Inf. rat race. -v. 3. furrow, channel, trough, flute, trench, ditch, rut.
4. groove on Slang, enjoy, like, love, rejoice in, revel in, SI. dig, SI. be into, SI. get high on, SI. get off on, SI. freak out on, SI. trip on, SI. be turned on by, SI. be blown away by. grope, v. 1. feel one's way, probe, grabble, scrabble, fumble, poke around, pick one's way, move blindly.
2. fish for, angle for, hunt for, look for, cast or beat around for; send out a feeler, send up a trial balloon, see how the land lies, see which way the wind is blowing, gross, adj. 1. aggregate, entire, whole, all, all-inclusive, inclusive, comprehensive.
2. unqualified, unmitigated, complete, total, absolute; rank, arrant, sheer, uttermost, outright, out-and-out, downright.
3. flagrant, blatant, glaring, egregious, obvious, manifest, plain; outrageous, reprehensible, heinous, grievous, shameful.
4. indelicate, indecent, risque, ribald, bawdy, raffish; crude, vulgar, raw, rude, broad, earthy, low, foulmouthed; carnal, sensual, erotic, sexual, animalistic; obscene, pornographic, gutter, gutter-level.
5. unrefined, unsophisticated, uncultured, uncultivated; crass, cloddish, boorish, oafish, loutish, lumpish, lubberly; dull, obtuse, stupid, thick, dim-witted.
6. large, big, great; bulky, hulky, ponderous, cumbersome, unwieldy; huge, colossal, tremendous, stupendous, prodigious, immense, massive.
7. obese, very fat, extremely overweight, adipose. -n. 8. take, intake, takings, receipts, profits; box office, gate, handle, Brit. SI. get. grossness, n. 1., completeness, totality, absoluteness, unqualifiedness, unmitigatedness; rankness, sheerness, arrantness, outrightness, downrightness.
2. flagrancy, blatancy, glaringness, obviousness, manifestness, plainness; outrageousness, reprehensibleness, heinousness, grievousness, shamefulness.
3. indelicateness, indecency, ribaldry, bawdiness, raffishness; crudeness, vulgarity, rawness, rudeness, earthiness, lowness; carnality, sensuality, eroticism, sexuality, animalism.
4. unsophistication, lack of refinement or polish, uncultivatedness, crassness; cloddishness, loutishness, oafishness, lumpishness, lubberliness. grotesque, adj. 1. strange, weird, bizarre, freakish, Inf. freaky, SI. rum, SI. far-out; odd, peculiar, curious, queer, offbeat; uncommon, unusual, deviate, aberrant, anomalous, abnormal, irregular.
2. misshapen, distorted, twisted, gnarled, deformed, misproportioned, humpbacked, hunchbacked; monstrous, frightful, hideous, horrible, horrendous; repugnant, repellent, repulsive. grotto, n. 1. cave, cavern, cove, Chiefly Literary. grot; subterrane, catacomb.
2. retreat, refuge, haven, shelter, burrow, hermitage; asylum, resort, sanctuary, ark, covert, hideaway, mew.
3. recess, hollow, cavity, concavity; alcove, niche,