Meaning Of The Word Grotesque
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What's The Definition Of Grotesque?
grotesque
adjective: You say that something is grotesque when it is so unnatural, unpleasant, and exaggerated that it upsets or shocks you. grotesque in American English a grotesque painting, sculpture, design, etc. 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 adjective: odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre noun: any grotesque object, design, person, or thing grotesque in British English adjective: strangely or fantastically distorted; bizarre noun: a 16th-century decorative style in which parts of human, animal, and plant forms are distorted and mixed |
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