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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024gro•tesque /groʊˈtɛsk/USA pronunciation adj. - odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character;
fantastically ugly or absurd;
bizarre:a grotesque statue of a human head on top of a lion's body.
gro•tesque•ly, adv. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024gro•tesque (grō tesk′),USA pronunciation adj. - odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character;
fantastically ugly or absurd;
bizarre. - fantastic in the shaping and combination of forms, as in decorative work combining incongruous human and animal figures with scrolls, foliage, etc.
n. - any grotesque object, design, person, or thing.
- Italian grottesco (as noun, nominal, grottesca grotesque decoration such as was apparently found in excavated dwellings), derivative of grotta. See grotto, -esque
- French
- 1555–65
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged distorted, deformed, weird, antic, wild. See fantastic.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: grotesque /ɡrəʊˈtɛsk/ adj - strangely or fantastically distorted; bizarre
- of or characteristic of the grotesque in art
- absurdly incongruous; in a ludicrous context
n - a 16th-century decorative style in which parts of human, animal, and plant forms are distorted and mixed
- a decorative device, as in painting or sculpture, in this style
- the family of 19th-century sans serif display types
- any grotesque person or thing
Etymology: 16th Century: from French, from Old Italian (pittura) grottesca cave painting, from grottesco of a cave, from grotta cave; see grottogroˈtesquely adv groˈtesqueness n |