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grotesque
- /ɡɹəʊˈtɛsk/ UK
- /ɡɹoʊˈtɛsk/ US
Rhymes with -ɛsk
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French grotesque, from Italian grottesco, from grotta (“cave”) + -esco (relational suffix). By surface analysis, grotto + -esque. Compare French grotesque, English grotto.
adjective grotesquer · more grotesque · grotesquest · most grotesque
- Distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal, especially in a hideous way. The chimney-piece was of party-coloured marble, covered with figures, some of whose faces were beautiful, but generally running off into those grotesque combinations which characterised the peculiar taste of their time.
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Disgusting or otherwise viscerally revolting.
Trump’s grotesque and incomprehensible fondness for Putin makes the details of any deal highly dangerous for Europe and the NATO alliance, founded to confront Russia.
Similar: gross
- Sans serif.
noun grotesques
- A style of ornamentation characterized by fanciful combinations of intertwined forms.
- Anything grotesque. Obese and largely unintelligible, Don Vito represents a working-class white male grotesque, the picture of excess.
- A sans serif typeface.
verb grotesques · grotesquing · grotesqueing · grotesqued
- To make grotesque. Why, when I saw that bestiality— / So beyond all brute-beast imagining, / That when, to point the moral at the close, / Poor Salabaccho, just to show how fair / Was ‘Reconciliation,’ stripped her charms, / That exhibition simply bade us breathe, / Seemed something healthy and commendable / After obs
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: monstrous, strange, ugly, unusual, antic, fantastical, fantastic, unnatural, appalling, insane, outrageous, pathetic, foolish, preposterous, bizarre, ridiculous
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adj distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous
| Español | grotesco |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | グロテスクな gurotesuku-na, グロな guro-na, グロい guroi |
| 中文 | 怪模怪樣 /怪模怪样 guàimúguàiyàng |
| हिन्दी | विकृत vikŕt, बेडौल beḍaul, विरूप virūp, कुरूप kurūp |
| Português | grotesco |
| Français | grotesque |
| Deutsch | grotesk |
| Italiano | grottesco |
| Română | grotesc |
| Русский | гроте́скный grotésknyj |
| العربية | غَرِيب ḡarīb |
| עברית | גרוטסקה groteska |
Talk about this word "grotesque." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/grotesque. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. grotesque. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/grotesque "grotesque." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/grotesque.Cite this
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title = {grotesque},
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