Grotesque

Adjective

 * 1) Bizarre or fantastic.
 * 2) Disgusting or otherwise viscerally reviling.
 * 3)  sans serif.

Noun

 * 1) A style of ornamentation characterized by fanciful combinations of intertwined forms.
 * 2) Anything grotesque.
 * 3)  A sans serif typeface.

Thesaurus
Gothic, aberrant, abnormal, absurd, anomalous, antic, art object, bandy, bandy-legged, baroque, beyond belief, bizarre, blemished, bloated, bowlegged, brain-born, brainchild, bric-a-brac, cacogenic, classic, club-footed, cockamamie, comic, comical, composition, crazy, creation, curious, defaced, deformed, design, disfigured, distorted, dream-built, droll, dwarfed, eerie, extravagant, extreme, fanciful, fancy-born, fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasque, fantastic, flamboyant, flatfooted, florid, foolish, freak, freakish, gargoylish, gnarled, gruesome, high-flown, ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, incongruous, incredible, kitsch, knock-kneed, laughable, ludicrous, maggoty, malformed, marred, master, masterpiece, masterwork, misbegotten, misproportioned, misshapen, mobile, monstrous, museum piece, mutilated, nonsensical, notional, nude, odd, offbeat, old master, out of shape, outlandish, outrageous, outre, pasticcio, pastiche, peculiar, piece, piece of virtu, pigeon-toed, poppycockish, preposterous, pug-nosed, queer, rachitic, rickety, ridiculous, rococo, shapeless, simous, snub-nosed, stabile, statue, still life, strange, study, stumpy, swaybacked, talipedic, teratic, teratogenic, teratoid, truncated, twisted, uncanny, unshapely, virtu, weird, whimsical, wild, work, work of art

Etymology
grotesque: (French: grotesque), from grottesco:, from grotta:. Compare English grotto:.

Adjective

 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Danish:
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 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: גרוטסקה (groteska)


 * Italian: grottesco
 * Japanese: グロ (guro)
 * Norwegian: grotesk
 * Romanian: grotesc
 * Russian: гротескный
 * Spanish:

Related terms

 * grotesquely
 * grotesqueness

Etymology
From grottesco:, from grotta:'.

Adjective

 * 1) farcical (ridicule)
 * 2) grotesque

Noun

 * 1) grotesqueness