Synonyms 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.

   Synonyms:
   chimerical, fanciful, fantastic, imaginative, visionary

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

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1. grotesque

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

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

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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"

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

   Antonyms:
   beautiful, familiar

3. antic, fantastic, fantastical, grotesqueadjective

   ludicrously odd

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

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

   Antonyms:
   familiar, beautiful

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1. outlandishadjective

   Submitted by Providence on July 15, 2023  

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1. grotesqueadjective

   Synonyms:
   fantastic, fanciful, odd, whimsical, extravagant, unnatural, wild, strange, BIZARRE

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1. grotesqueadjective

   Synonyms:
   fantastic, bizarre, outlandish, baroque, whimsical

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1. List of paraphrases for "grotesque":

   preposterous, ludicrous, ridiculous, farcical, bizarre, absurd, monstrous

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How to use grotesque in a sentence?

1. Steve Matteson:

   Swiss typographers gravitated to grotesque designs like Helvetica because of their suitability for grid-based typography.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Zalmay Khalilzad:

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

5. Trump Jr.:

   I hope every elected Democrat in the country has the common decency and moral courage to disavow these types of grotesque statements from members of their party.