grotesquery
Disturbing visual aberration
Grotesquery is the quality of being grotesque—bizarre, distorted, or absurdly ugly.
It can also refer to a specific instance of grotesqueness: The film's grotesqueries included mutant creatures and twisted landscapes.
The word often suggests something both repulsive and fascinating, ugly in a way that compels attention rather than simple avoidance.
Abnormally or poorly formed
- contortedTwisted unnaturally
- disfiguredSpoiled in appearance
- malformedImproperly structured or shaped
- monstrousFrighteningly huge or wicked
twisted · warped · distorted · hideous · freakish · aberrant · mutant · hunchback
German industrial corporation
- GoyaHispanic food brand
- BruegelSixteenth-century Flemish master
- BaconNotable English surname
- DaliSurrealist painter's surname
surrealist · expressionist · arabesque · ornamental · baroque · rococo · garish · florid
Unhealthily drawn to darkness
- ghoulishFascinated by death grotesquely
- charnelOf or containing remains
- sepulchralRelating to burial chambers
- cadaverousResembling the deceased
phantasmagoric · spectral · grisly · eerie · sinister · diabolical · macabre · gothic
Made larger than reality
- overblownInflated beyond reasonable proportion
- hyperbolicExaggerated beyond reason
- absurdWildly illogical
- outlandishStrikingly weird or foreign-seeming
extravagant · overwrought · ridiculous · ludicrous · preposterous · cartoonish · satirical · lampoon
misshapen
Abnormally or poorly formed
- contortedTwisted unnaturally
- disfiguredSpoiled in appearance
- malformedImproperly structured or shaped
monstrous · twisted · warped · distorted · hideous · freakish · aberrant · mutant · hunchback · gnarled
Bosch
German industrial corporation
Dali · surrealist · expressionist · arabesque · ornamental · baroque · rococo · garish · florid · fantastic
morbid
Unhealthily drawn to darkness
- ghoulishFascinated by death grotesquely
- charnelOf or containing remains
- sepulchralRelating to burial chambers
cadaverous · phantasmagoric · spectral · grisly · eerie · sinister · diabolical · macabre · gothic · nightmarish
exaggerated
Made larger than reality
- overblownInflated beyond reasonable proportion
- hyperbolicExaggerated beyond reason
- absurdWildly illogical
outlandish · extravagant · overwrought · ridiculous · ludicrous · preposterous · cartoonish · satirical · lampoon · parody
- grotesquedeformity, freaks, hideousness, gargoyles, monstrosity
- macabrecorpse, corpses, skull, skulls, skeleton
grotesquerybeauty
Aesthetic excellence
elegance · loveliness · comeliness · prettiness · handsomeness
grotesquerysymmetry
Invariance under transformation
proportion · harmony · gracefulness · balance · regularity
grotesquerynormality
State of being typical
ordinariness · conventionality · naturalness · typicality · regularity
- the grotesqueDisturbing aesthetic ugliness
- grotesque imageryDisturbing, distorted depictions
- grotesque charactersDisturbingly strange fictional beings
- grotesque figuresUgly ornamental sculptures
grotesque, grotesquely, grotesquerie, grotesqueries, grotesqueness