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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1. Stephen Colbert:

   It's predictable why these TV talkers are talking like this on the TV. They want to talk about something other than the January 6th hearings on the actual seditious insurrection that led to the deaths of multiple people, but drawing any equivalence between rioters storming our Capitol to prevent the counting of electoral ballots and a cigar-chomping toy dog is a shameful and grotesque insult to the memory of everyone who died.

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. Jeffrey Toobin:

   It's a grotesque abuse of power by the President of the United States.

4. Steve Matteson:

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

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