About The Word Grotesque
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Grotesque
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What's The Definition Of Grotesque?
[n] art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants
[adj] distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous; "tales of grotesque serpents eight fathoms long that churned the seas"; "twisted into monstrous shapes" [adj] ludicrously odd; "Hamlet's assumed antic disposition"; "fantastic Halloween costumes"; "a grotesque reflection in the mirror" Synonyms | Synonyms for Grotesque: antic | fantastic | fantastical | monstrous | strange | ugly | unnatural | unusual Related Terms | Find terms related to Grotesque: aberrant | abnormal | absurd | anomalous | antic | art object | bandy | bandy-legged | baroque | beyond belief | bizarre | blemished | bloated | bowlegged | brain-born | brainchild | bric-a-brac | cacogenic | classic | club-footed | cockamamie | comic | comical | composition | crazy | creation | curious | defaced | deformed | design | disfigured | distorted | dream-built | droll | dwarfed | eerie | extravagant | extreme | fanciful | fancy-born | fancy-built | fancy-woven | fantasque | fantastic | flamboyant | flatfooted | florid | foolish | freak | freakish | gargoylish | gnarled | Gothic | gruesome | high-flown | ill-made | ill-proportioned | ill-shaped | incongruous | incredible | kitsch | knock-kneed | laughable | ludicrous | maggoty | malformed | marred | master | masterpiece | masterwork | misbegotten | misproportioned | misshapen | mobile | monstrous | museum piece | mutilated | nonsensical | notional | nude | odd | offbeat | old master | out of shape | outlandish | outrageous | outre | pasticcio | pastiche | peculiar | piece | piece of virtu | pigeon-toed | poppycockish | preposterous | pug-nosed | queer | rachitic | rickety | ridiculous | rococo | shapeless | simous | snub-nosed | stabile | statue | still life | strange | study | stumpy | swaybacked | talipedic | teratic | teratogenic | teratoid | truncated | twisted | uncanny | unshapely | virtu | weird | whimsical | wild | work | work of art Grotesque In Webster's Dictionary \Gro*tesque\, n.
1. A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old
crypts and grottoes. --Dryden.
2. Artificial grotto-work.
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