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Learn the origin, synonyms, and usage of the word grotesque, which can be a noun or an adjective. A grotesque is a style of art with fantastic or bizarre forms, or something that is unnatural or ugly.
Grotesque. Since at least the 18th century (in French and German, as well as English), grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, mysterious, magnificent, fantastic, hideous, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus is often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks.
Grotesque definition: odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.. See examples of GROTESQUE used in a sentence.
Grotesque means strange and unpleasant, especially in a silly or slightly frightening way, or wrong or unfair to a shocking degree. It can also be a noun for a painting or other artistic work with an image of a person that is ugly or unpleasant as its subject.
Grotesque means strange and unpleasant, especially in a silly or slightly frightening way, or wrong or unfair to a shocking degree. Learn more about the word, its usage and related terms with Cambridge Dictionary.
grotesque: 1 adj distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous “tales of grotesque serpents eight fathoms long that churned the seas” Synonyms: monstrous ugly displeasing to the senses adj ludicrously odd “a grotesque reflection in the mirror” Synonyms: antic , fantastic , fantastical strange , unusual being definitely out of ...
Word Origin mid 16th cent. (as noun): from French crotesque (the earliest form in English), from Italian grottesca, from opera or pittura grottesca ‘work or painting resembling that found in a grotto’; “grotto” here probably denoted the rooms of ancient buildings in Rome which had been revealed by excavations, and which contained murals in the grotesque style.
