Usually means: Bizarre, distorted, and unnatural form.
Definitions Related words Phrases (New!) Mentions Lyrics History Colors (New!)
We found 32 dictionaries that define the word grotesque:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. grotesque: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. grotesque, the grotesque: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grotesque: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. grotesque: Collins English Dictionary
  5. grotesque: Vocabulary.com
  6. Grotesque, grotesque: Wordnik
  7. grotesque: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. grotesque: Wiktionary
  9. grotesque: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. grotesque: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. grotesque: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Grotesque, grotesque: Dictionary.com
  13. grotesque: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. grotesque: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Grotesque (After the Gramme), Grotesque (Fear the Walking Dead), Grotesque (Stephenson Blake typefaces), Grotesque (The X-Files), Grotesque (album), Grotesque (architecture), Grotesque (band), Grotesque (chess), Grotesque (disambiguation), Grotesque (novel), Grotesque (typeface), Grotesque (typeface classification), Grotesque, The Grotesque (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Grotesque: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. grotesque: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. grotesque: Rhymezone
  19. grotesque, grotesque: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. grotesque: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. grotesque: Free Dictionary
  22. grotesque: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Grotesque: The Word Detective
  24. grotesque: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. grotesque: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. grotesque: Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grotesque: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grotesque: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grotesque: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See grotesquely as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
)
American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal, especially in a hideous way.
adjective:  Disgusting or otherwise viscerally revolting.
adjective:  (typography) Sans serif.
noun:  A style of ornamentation characterized by fanciful combinations of intertwined forms.
noun:  Anything grotesque.
noun:  (typography) A sans serif typeface.

Similar:

Opposite:

Types:

Phrases:

Adjectives:

Colors:
    olive,     mustard,     chartreuse,     puce,     bile, more...



Word origin

Words similar to grotesque

Usage examples for grotesque

Idioms related to grotesque

Wikipedia articles (New!)

Popular adjectives describing grotesque

Popular nouns described by grotesque

Words that often appear near grotesque

Rhymes of grotesque

Invented words related to grotesque

Similar:

Opposite:

Types:

Phrases:

Adjectives:

Colors:
    olive,     mustard,     chartreuse,     puce,     bile, more...



Writing poetry or lyrics? You can find related words that match a given meter.
This feature is permanently available from the "Related words" tab and from the Thesaurus.





Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus   Datamuse   Compound Your Joy   Threepeat   Spruce   Feedback   Dark mode   Help


Our daily word games Threepeat and Compound Your Joy are going strong. Bookmark and enjoy!