art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants 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
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"
If someone or something is grotesque, they are very ugly. They tried to avoid looking at his grotesque face and his crippled body. = hideous + grotesquely gro·tesque·ly grotesquely deformed beggars
You say that something is grotesque when it is so unnatural, unpleasant, and exaggerated that it upsets or shocks you. the grotesque disparities between the wealthy few and nearly everyone else. a country where grotesque abuses are taking place. + grotesquely gro·tesque·ly He called it the most grotesquely tragic experience that he's ever had