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adj. Characterized by ludicrous or incongruous distortion, as of appearance or manner.

adj. Outlandish or bizarre, as in character or appearance. See Synonyms at fantastic.

adj. Of, relating to, or being the grotesque style in art or a work executed in this style.

n. One that is grotesque.

n. A style of painting, sculpture, and ornamentation in which natural forms and monstrous figures are intertwined in bizarre or fanciful combinations.

n. A work of art executed in this style.

adj. distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous

adj. disgusting or otherwise viscerally reviling.

adj. sans serif.

n. A style of ornamentation characterized by fanciful combinations of intertwined forms.

n. Anything grotesque.

n. A sans serif typeface.

adj. Like the figures found in ancient grottoes; grottolike.

adj. Wildly or strangely formed; whimsical; extravagant; of irregular forms and proportions; fantastic; ludicrous; antic.

n. A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old crypts and grottoes.

n. Artificial grotto-work.

Consisting of or resembling artificial grotto-work.

Hence Of the fantastic character of such grotto-work and of its decoration; wildly formed; of irregular forms and proportions; ludicrous; antic (which see), as the arabesques of the Renaissance, in which figures human to the waist terminate in scrolls, leafage, and the like, and are associated with animal forms and impossible flowers; hence, in general, whimsical, extravagant, or odd; absurdly bold: often, or more commonly, used in a sense of condemnation or depreciation.

Synonyms Fantastic, etc. (see fanciful); whimsical, wild, strange.

n. That which is grotesque, as an uncouth or ill-proportioned figure, rude and savage scenery, an inartistic, clownish, or absurd fancy, a clumsy satire, or the like.

n. Specifically In art, a capricious figure, work, or ornament; especially, a variety of arabesque which as a whole has no type in nature, being a combination of the parts of animals and plants, and of other incongruous elements.

n. In printing, any uncouth form of type; specifically, in Great Britain, the black square-cut display-type called gothic in the United States.

adj. ludicrously odd

adj. distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous

n. art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants

"In one marvellous passage he defines the word "grotesque" from the word grotto, a small cave and goes on to sing the praises of the "modern master printers who think like the scribes of our old Icelandic languages" and decorate their texts with impossible creatures –"a centaur here, an old woman with birds' feet there, a three-headed dog"."

strange    unusual    ugly   

Art    fine art   

grotesquely    grotesqueness   

grottolike    whimsical    extravagant    fantastic    ludicrous    antic    funny   

Kafkaesque    Reaganesque    Romanesque    burlesque    desk    romanesque    statuesque   

fantastic    absurd    bizarre    horrible    monstrous    quaint    tragic    queer    amuse