Antonyms for grotesque
groʊˈtɛskgrotesque

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1. grotesque

   That is fanciful which is dictated or suggested by fancy independently of more serious considerations; the fantastic is the fanciful with the added elements of whimsicalness and extravagance. The fanciful swings away from the real or the ordinary lightly and pleasantly, the fantastic extravagantly, the grotesque ridiculously. A fanciful arrangement of objects is commonly pleasing, a fantastic arrangement is striking, a grotesque arrangement is laughable. A fanciful theory or suggestion may be clearly recognized as such; a visionary scheme is erroneously supposed to have a basis in fact. Compare synonyms for DREAM; IDEA; IMAGINATION.

   Antonyms:
   accurate, calculable, calculated, commonplace, literal, ordinary, prosaic, real, reasonable, regular, sensible, solid, sound, sure, true

   Synonyms:
   chimerical, fanciful, fantastic, imaginative, visionary

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1. grotesque

   Antonyms:
   classic, chaste, fina, fashionable, graceful, severe

   Synonyms:
   whimsical, quaint, old, burlesque, archaic, caricatured, distorted

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1. grotesqueadjective

   art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants

   Antonyms:
   beautiful, familiar

2. grotesque, monstrousadjective

   distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous

   "tales of grotesque serpents eight fathoms long that churned the seas"; "twisted into monstrous shapes"

   Antonyms:
   beautiful, familiar

   Synonyms:
   flagitious, antic, fantastic, monstrous, fantastical, atrocious, grievous

3. antic, fantastic, fantastical, grotesqueadjective

   ludicrously odd

   "Hamlet's assumed antic disposition"; "fantastic Halloween costumes"; "a grotesque reflection in the mirror"

   Antonyms:
   familiar, beautiful

   Synonyms:
   wondrous, tremendous, terrific, antic, howling(a), wonderful, marvellous, fantastic, wild, monstrous, marvelous, fantastical, rattling(a), grand

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1. grotesqueadjective

   Synonyms:
   fantastic, bizarre, outlandish, baroque, whimsical

How to use grotesque in a sentence?

1. André Breton:

   To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

2. Rafi Eitan:

   Rafi Eitan told Fox News Leland Vittert. Eventually, the man admitted he was Adolf Eichmann. With more derring-do, Rafi Eitan and his fellow commandoes spirited Eichmann out of Argentina and brought him back to Israel where he was tried, convicted and sentenced to death by hanging. ANCIENT CLAY JAR FRAGMENT DEPICTING GROTESQUE DEITY DISCOVERED IN JERUSALEMS CITY OF DAVID At a reunion for those involved in Eichmanns capture and trial some years ago, Rafi Eitan recalled Eichmanns capturewith a twinkle in Rafi Eitan eye. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP I was 51 years younger( then), but I am able and ready to do the same thing again.

3. Gerald Scarfe:

   I do have a weird vision of the world, ever since I started I was told, 'You're Hieronymus Bosch, your drawings are grotesque.' But of course, they don't seem like that to me.

4. Brian Kammer:

   Today, the court has unconscionably allowed a grotesque miscarriage of justice to occur in Georgia, the intellectual disability community, which has strongly supported Mr. Hill's case for many years, joined his legal team in the belief that the Supreme Court would step in and prevent Georgia's flagrant disregard of the Constitution on behalf of the rights of people with disabilities.

5. Zalmay Khalilzad:

   The attack on Amrullah Saleh's political party offices was grotesque and a clear act of terrorism.

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