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Definitions of grotesque in various dictionaries:
noun - art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants
adj - distorted and unnatural in shape or size
adj - ludicrously odd
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| From the Italian for "of a cave", this adjective today refers to anything strange or ugly |
| In the shaping & combination of forms, like gargoyles, this adjective means fantastic |
| From ornate figures found on Roman grotto walls comes this word meaning bizarrely ugly |
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| comically or repulsively ugly or distorted. |
| a very ugly or comically distorted figure or image. |
| A family of 19th-century sans serif typefaces. |
| A very ugly or comically distorted figure or image. |
| Comically or repulsively ugly or distorted. |
| ludicrously odd |
| distorted and unnatural in shape or size abnormal and hideous |
| art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants |
| strange and unpleasant, especially in a silly or slightly frightening way: |
| a painting or other artistic work with an image of a person that is ugly or unpleasant as its subject: |
| Grotesque description |
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| Since at least the 18th century (in French and German as well as English), grotesque (or grottoesque) 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. In art, performance, and literature, however, grotesque may also refer to something that simultaneously invokes in an audience a feeling of uncomfortable bizarreness as well as sympathetic pity. More specifically, the grotesque forms on Gothic buildings, when not used as drain-spouts, should not be called gargoyles, but rather referred to simply as grotesques, or chimeras.The word was originally a noun (1560s), from Italian grottesco (through Middle French), literally "of a cave", from Italian grotta (see grotto), an extravagant style of Ancient Roman decorative art rediscovered and then copied in Rome at the end of the 15th century. The word fir |