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Definition of grotesque in English: grotesqueadjective ɡrə(ʊ)ˈtɛskɡroʊˈtɛsk 1Comically or repulsively ugly or distorted. 丑陋（而滑稽或令人厌恶）的；奇形怪状的 a figure wearing a grotesque mask Example sentencesExamples - But this post-World War II system was only a grotesque parody of a gold standard.
- The bull's carcass dragged and hung in a grotesque parody of crucifixion.
- The one true romance has had its legs cut out from under it; we are left with the ugly, grotesque caricature of lust that drives these two to their ultimate doom.
- Even grimmer and more grotesque scenarios are amply available in the world of globalization.
- The pristine beach was now a sheet of razor-sharp glass, twisted into hideous and grotesque spires and craters.
- A demonic light flashed behind the grotesque mask of amiability.
- The latter piece, rather grotesque and humorous, will probably never become popular.
- Today we are faced with a particularly grotesque form of appeasement.
- The military stands out as a particularly grotesque example of the latter.
- Turning on the Admiral, her face twisted into a grotesque mask of furor and grief.
- Another boy did a grotesque parody of a monster drawling incoherent, preposterous demands.
- Poverty is ugly and the most grotesque form of slavery.
- Even the tots wore their costumes and enjoyed the fun, peering through their grotesque masks, and frightening their elders.
- Their spirits will not find peace hanging there like grotesque decorations from an evil celebration.
- He continuously draws pictures of the creature's grotesque porcelain mask.
- We should close down this grotesque spectacle, and grant these performing primates their freedom and their privacy.
- They each wore a disgusting mask, grotesque caricatures of the human face.
- Lately he's been an authority on patently grotesque facial hair patterns.
- Her auburn hair was matted with dried blood and her wings looked like grotesque twigs.
- Similarly, the emphasis on waiting times for day surgery leads to a grotesque distortion of priorities.
Synonyms malformed, deformed, misshapen, misproportioned, distorted, twisted, gnarled, mangled, mutilated ugly, unsightly, monstrous, hideous freakish, unnatural, abnormal, bizarre, outlandish, strange, odd, peculiar fantastic, fanciful, whimsical informal weird, freaky, fugly British informal rum New Zealand informal huckery - 1.1 Incongruous or inappropriate to a shocking degree.
极不协调的，极不恰当的；荒唐的 a lifestyle of grotesque luxury 奢侈到荒唐程度的生活方式。 Synonyms outrageous, monstrous, shocking, astonishing, preposterous, ridiculous, ludicrous, farcical, unbelievable, unthinkable, incredible informal crazy
noun ɡrə(ʊ)ˈtɛskɡroʊˈtɛsk 1A very ugly or comically distorted figure or image. 奇形怪状，丑陋的图形（或生物、形象） the rods are carved in the form of a series of gargoyle faces and grotesques 杆上雕刻着各种形状奇异的兽脸和图案。 Example sentencesExamples - Populated by grotesques and caricatures it was a love/hate letter for an England fading into sepia.
- In the process, what could have been a portentous freak show of rural grotesques became a memorable portrait of painful family fissures.
- Out in the street, he found a carnival of grotesques behind the surface of the world.
- In a more fantastical vein, there is a goofy, exactingly etched scene from the story of Salome, with a cast of funny grotesques including an old woman dancing nude, a corpulent Herod and a naked man using a small boy as a violin.
- Standing among these grotesques, one immediately attempted to connect the images, to deduce the cultural and social milieu from which they came.
- Religious sculptures and grotesques are visible on the walls.
- At the bottom of each slope of this gablet is a carved grotesque.
- In the large ensemble cast, he gives the standout performance as the endearingly needy, shambling Tommy, the most human figure in what often seems like a gallery of grotesques and cartoon caricatures.
- Each arm seems to take on a life of its own, morphing into quasi-abstract creature heads, unnamable grotesques of glass and pigment, stripes and dots.
- The characters, or rather their moulded images, are from the sketchbook, social grotesques masquerading as pillars of society.
- A contemporary mind will also be conscious that she is a woman painting women - and, often, find her naked grotesques easier to accept than if a man had painted them.
- Gargoyles and grotesques, which top the building, were donated to the Cathedral by civic and school groups over the years.
- They're a pastiche of grotesques lifted from the canon of Southern literature with additional fever-pitch dialogue from every drug-addiction novel ever written.
- No less remarkable is the decoration on an enchanting plate, which is inspired by painted grotesques from around 1500, and surrounds a bizarre mannerist figure.
- The 18th-century singeries go back to Jean Bérain, who first hit on the idea c. 1695 of replacing the classical fauns and statues of Renaissance grotesques by figures of monkeys.
- Like all good grotesques, these works simultaneously attract and repel, provoking us into uneasy awareness of ourselves.
- Its 252 leaves includes two full-page miniatures and thousands of exquisite marginalia embracing a whole menagerie of birds and beasties, monsters, fables, grotesques and vignettes of daily life.
- The former is seen in the rectilinear and symmetrical designs, including some carvings and moldings that are formed with characteristic regence strapwork, grotesques, and classical motifs from antiquity.
- The Baroque introduced grotesques along with the heavy ball dangling from the central shaft, anchoring detachable rows of arms that allowed the hanging fixture to mutate vertically.
- Gradually, in other songs, Dylan gives more license to clowns and fools, gargoyles and grotesques.
- 1.1mass noun A style of decorative painting or sculpture consisting of the interweaving of human and animal forms with flowers and foliage.
（装饰画或雕刻中将人、动物图形与花、枝叶交织在一起的）奇异的风格 Example sentencesExamples - The adaptation of this decorative style came to be known as grotesque, based on the word grotto.
- His writing - poetry, drama, and opinions - is a curious blend of disciplined classicism and carnival grotesque.
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mass noun A family of 19th-century sans serif typefaces. 〔印刷〕（19世纪的）畸形字体，粗黑字体
OriginMid 16th century (as noun): from French crotesque (the earliest form in English), from Italian grottesca, from opera or pittura grottesca 'work or painting resembling that found in a grotto'; ‘grotto’ here probably denoted the rooms of ancient buildings in Rome which had been revealed by excavations, and which contained murals in the grotesque style. We think of something grotesque as being ugly or distorted, either in a comic or a repulsive way, but when the word first appeared in English in the 16th century it simply described the style of painting found in a grotto, specifically the murals discovered in ancient Roman ruins. These decorative wall paintings involved interweaving human and animal forms with flowers and foliage. Grotesque comes from Italian grottesca, which was used in the phrases opera grottesca ‘work resembling that found in a grotto’, and pittura grottesca ‘painting resembling one found in a grotto’. Grotty, meaning ‘unpleasant or unwell’, source of grot ‘dirt’, comes from grotesque. It was introduced to the public in 1964 in the Beatles’ film A Hard Day's Night. Grotto itself ultimately comes from Greek kruptos ‘hidden’, which is also the source of crypt (see crossword).
Rhymesarabesque, burlesque, Dantesque, desk, humoresque, Junoesque, Kafkaesque, Moresque, picaresque, picturesque, plateresque, Pythonesque, Romanesque, sculpturesque, statuesque Definition of grotesque in US English: grotesqueadjectiveɡrōˈteskɡroʊˈtɛsk 1Comically or repulsively ugly or distorted. 丑陋（而滑稽或令人厌恶）的；奇形怪状的 grotesque facial distortions 面部因扭曲而显现的奇形怪状。 Example sentencesExamples - But this post-World War II system was only a grotesque parody of a gold standard.
- They each wore a disgusting mask, grotesque caricatures of the human face.
- A demonic light flashed behind the grotesque mask of amiability.
- Her auburn hair was matted with dried blood and her wings looked like grotesque twigs.
- Poverty is ugly and the most grotesque form of slavery.
- Even the tots wore their costumes and enjoyed the fun, peering through their grotesque masks, and frightening their elders.
- Turning on the Admiral, her face twisted into a grotesque mask of furor and grief.
- The pristine beach was now a sheet of razor-sharp glass, twisted into hideous and grotesque spires and craters.
- The one true romance has had its legs cut out from under it; we are left with the ugly, grotesque caricature of lust that drives these two to their ultimate doom.
- The bull's carcass dragged and hung in a grotesque parody of crucifixion.
- Another boy did a grotesque parody of a monster drawling incoherent, preposterous demands.
- We should close down this grotesque spectacle, and grant these performing primates their freedom and their privacy.
- Today we are faced with a particularly grotesque form of appeasement.
- The military stands out as a particularly grotesque example of the latter.
- Lately he's been an authority on patently grotesque facial hair patterns.
- Even grimmer and more grotesque scenarios are amply available in the world of globalization.
- Similarly, the emphasis on waiting times for day surgery leads to a grotesque distortion of priorities.
- Their spirits will not find peace hanging there like grotesque decorations from an evil celebration.
- The latter piece, rather grotesque and humorous, will probably never become popular.
- He continuously draws pictures of the creature's grotesque porcelain mask.
Synonyms malformed, deformed, misshapen, misproportioned, distorted, twisted, gnarled, mangled, mutilated - 1.1 Incongruous or inappropriate to a shocking degree.
极不协调的，极不恰当的；荒唐的 a lifestyle of grotesque luxury 奢侈到荒唐程度的生活方式。 Synonyms outrageous, monstrous, shocking, astonishing, preposterous, ridiculous, ludicrous, farcical, unbelievable, unthinkable, incredible
nounɡrōˈteskɡroʊˈtɛsk 1A very ugly or comically distorted figure, creature, or image. 奇形怪状，丑陋的图形（或生物、形象） the rods are carved in the form of a series of gargoyle faces and grotesques 杆上雕刻着各种形状奇异的兽脸和图案。 Example sentencesExamples - At the bottom of each slope of this gablet is a carved grotesque.
- Gradually, in other songs, Dylan gives more license to clowns and fools, gargoyles and grotesques.
- The characters, or rather their moulded images, are from the sketchbook, social grotesques masquerading as pillars of society.
- Religious sculptures and grotesques are visible on the walls.
- Standing among these grotesques, one immediately attempted to connect the images, to deduce the cultural and social milieu from which they came.
- The 18th-century singeries go back to Jean Bérain, who first hit on the idea c. 1695 of replacing the classical fauns and statues of Renaissance grotesques by figures of monkeys.
- Its 252 leaves includes two full-page miniatures and thousands of exquisite marginalia embracing a whole menagerie of birds and beasties, monsters, fables, grotesques and vignettes of daily life.
- A contemporary mind will also be conscious that she is a woman painting women - and, often, find her naked grotesques easier to accept than if a man had painted them.
- Out in the street, he found a carnival of grotesques behind the surface of the world.
- Each arm seems to take on a life of its own, morphing into quasi-abstract creature heads, unnamable grotesques of glass and pigment, stripes and dots.
- In a more fantastical vein, there is a goofy, exactingly etched scene from the story of Salome, with a cast of funny grotesques including an old woman dancing nude, a corpulent Herod and a naked man using a small boy as a violin.
- In the process, what could have been a portentous freak show of rural grotesques became a memorable portrait of painful family fissures.
- Like all good grotesques, these works simultaneously attract and repel, provoking us into uneasy awareness of ourselves.
- Gargoyles and grotesques, which top the building, were donated to the Cathedral by civic and school groups over the years.
- The Baroque introduced grotesques along with the heavy ball dangling from the central shaft, anchoring detachable rows of arms that allowed the hanging fixture to mutate vertically.
- No less remarkable is the decoration on an enchanting plate, which is inspired by painted grotesques from around 1500, and surrounds a bizarre mannerist figure.
- They're a pastiche of grotesques lifted from the canon of Southern literature with additional fever-pitch dialogue from every drug-addiction novel ever written.
- In the large ensemble cast, he gives the standout performance as the endearingly needy, shambling Tommy, the most human figure in what often seems like a gallery of grotesques and cartoon caricatures.
- The former is seen in the rectilinear and symmetrical designs, including some carvings and moldings that are formed with characteristic regence strapwork, grotesques, and classical motifs from antiquity.
- Populated by grotesques and caricatures it was a love/hate letter for an England fading into sepia.
- 1.1the grotesque That which is grotesque.
怪诞的事物 images of the macabre and the grotesque 恐怖和怪诞的形象。 Example sentencesExamples - The vogue for the grotesque extended well into the later 17th century, and, to a lesser extent, into the 18th.
- 1.2 A style of decorative painting or sculpture consisting of the interweaving of human and animal forms with flowers and foliage.
（装饰画或雕刻中将人、动物图形与花、枝叶交织在一起的）奇异的风格 Example sentencesExamples - The adaptation of this decorative style came to be known as grotesque, based on the word grotto.
- His writing - poetry, drama, and opinions - is a curious blend of disciplined classicism and carnival grotesque.
2Printing
A family of 19th-century sans serif typefaces. 〔印刷〕（19世纪的）畸形字体，粗黑字体
OriginMid 16th century (as noun): from French crotesque (the earliest form in English), from Italian grottesca, from opera or pittura grottesca ‘work or painting resembling that found in a grotto’; ‘grotto’ here probably denoted the rooms of ancient buildings in Rome which had been revealed by excavations, and which contained murals in the grotesque style. |