- odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
- fantastic in the shaping and combination of forms, as in decorative work combining incongruous human and animal figures with scrolls, foliage, etc.
- any grotesque object, design, person, or thing.
- strangely or fantastically distorted; bizarre
- of or characteristic of the grotesque in art
- absurdly incongruous; in a ludicrous context
- a 16th-century decorative style in which parts of human, animal, and plant forms are distorted and mixed
- a decorative device, as in painting or sculpture, in this style
- the family of 19th-century sans serif display types
- any grotesque person or thing
