grotesque
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants
Types & categories
- art hypernym
Sense 2 adjective
distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous
tales of grotesque serpents eight fathoms long that churned the seas
Related & opposite
- teras derivation
- grotesqueness derivation
- monstrosity derivation
- ugly similar to
Sense 3 adjective
ludicrously odd
Hamlet's assumed antic disposition
Related & opposite
- antic derivation
- grotesqueness derivation
- strange similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | art |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | teras |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | grotesqueness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | monstrosity |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | ugly |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | antic |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | grotesqueness |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | strange |