Dictionary Entry
grotesque
grotesque is a 9-letter English word with 5 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old crypts and grottoes. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 21 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old crypts and grottoes.
- 2noun
Artificial grotto-work.
- 3noun
art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants
- 4adjective
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"
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- 5adjective
ludicrously odd
"Hamlet's assumed antic disposition"
"fantastic Halloween costumes"
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