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- Dictionarygro·tesque/ɡrōˈtesk/
adjective
- 1. comically or repulsively ugly or distorted: "grotesque facial distortions" Similar Opposite
noun
- 1. a very ugly or comically distorted figure, creature, or image: "the rods are carved in the form of a series of gargoyle faces and grotesques"
- 2. a family of 19th-century sans serif typefaces.
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The meaning of GROTESQUE is a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature.
GROTESQUE definition: 1. strange and unpleasant, especially in a silly or slightly frightening way: 2. wrong or unfair…. Learn more.
odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre. Synonyms: wild, antic, weird, deformed, distorted. fantastic in the shaping and combination of forms, as in decorative work combining incongruous human and animal figures with scrolls, foliage, etc.
Use grotesque to describe things that are very strange and ugly in an unnatural way. If something "grosses you out," you can safely refer to it as grotesque. Grotesque also refers to a style of art that uses odd and fanciful combinations of natural, human, and animal forms.
A grotesque is a person who is very ugly in a strange or unnatural way, especially one in a novel or painting.
GROTESQUE meaning: 1. strange and unpleasant, especially in a silly or slightly frightening way: 2. wrong or unfair…. Learn more.
strange in a way that is unpleasant or offensive. a grotesque distortion of the truth. The story was too grotesque to believe. It's grotesque to expect a person of her experience to work for so little money. The whole situation was really grotesque. Definitions on the go.
1. odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre. 2. fantastic in the shaping and combination of forms, as in decorative work combining incongruous human and animal figures with scrolls, foliage, etc. n. 3. a grotesque object, design, person, or thing.
very strange and unpleasant, especially in a ridiculous or slightly frightening way: a grotesque image.
In art, grotesques are ornamental arrangements of arabesques with interlaced garlands and small and fantastic human and animal figures, usually set out in a symmetrical pattern around some form of architectural framework, though this may be very flimsy.
