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- Dictionarygrotesque/ɡrə(ʊ)ˈtɛsk/
adjective
- 1. comically or repulsively ugly or distorted: "a figure wearing a grotesque mask" Similar Opposite
noun
- 1. a very ugly or comically distorted figure 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. How to use grotesque in a sentence.
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.
A grotesque is a person who is very ugly in a strange or unnatural way, especially one in a novel or painting. Grass's novels are peopled with outlandish characters: grotesques, clowns, scarecrows, dwarfs.
GROTESQUE meaning: 1. strange and unpleasant, especially in a silly or slightly frightening way: 2. wrong or unfair…. Learn more.
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.
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.
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.
Grotesque Definition. In or of a style of painting, sculpture, etc. in which forms of persons and animals are intermingled as with foliage, flowers, or fruits in a fantastic or bizarre design. Characterized by distortions or striking incongruities in appearance, shape, or manner; fantastic; bizarre.
very strange and unpleasant, especially in a ridiculous or slightly frightening way: a grotesque image.
