Betekenis van:
grotesque
grotesque
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
- ridicuul; wonderlijk en buitensporig; bespottelijk; belachelijk
- distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous
"tales of grotesque serpents eight fathoms long that churned the seas"
Synoniemen
Hyperoniemen
grotesque
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
- ludicrously odd
"a grotesque reflection in the mirror"
Synoniemen
grotesque
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants
Hyperoniemen
Voorbeeldzinnen
- They made huge, grotesque, yet beautiful poles of red cedar.
- The figures and grotesque masks decorating the modillions are interesting.
- As the grotesque parade passed by, everyone came out of their homes, hypnotized.
- His photographs are unsparingly critical, and his inimitable eye unmasks the banal as well as the grotesque.
- In her latest works she lets the uncanny swing like a grotesque pendulum from the humorous into homelike cosiness and back again.
- The exposition is dedicated to photographs of ideal, natural, and grotesque bodies; conceives of sexuality as a part of existence; and presents photographed sexual practices, desires, and phantasms.
- When seen in the perspective of half-a-dozen years or more, the best of our fashions strike us as grotesque, if not unsightly.