Betekenis van:
grotesque

grotesque
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
  • potsierlijk; kluchtig; lachwekkend
  • distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous
"tales of grotesque serpents eight fathoms long that churned the seas"

Synoniemen

grotesque
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
  • afwijkend van wat gewoon en/of gangbaar is.
  • distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous
"tales of grotesque serpents eight fathoms long that churned the seas"

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Hyperoniemen

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

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      Voorbeeldzinnen

      1. They made huge, grotesque, yet beautiful poles of red cedar.
      2. The figures and grotesque masks decorating the modillions are interesting.
      3. As the grotesque parade passed by, everyone came out of their homes, hypnotized.
      4. His photographs are unsparingly critical, and his inimitable eye unmasks the banal as well as the grotesque.
      5. In her latest works she lets the uncanny swing like a grotesque pendulum from the humorous into homelike cosiness and back again.
      6. 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.
      7. When seen in the perspective of half-a-dozen years or more, the best of our fashions strike us as grotesque, if not unsightly.