Nouns (1)
grotesque
n. art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants
Verbs (0)
Adverbs (0)
Adjectives (5)
antic, fantastic, fantastical
adj. ludicrously odd; "Hamlet's assumed antic disposition"; "fantastic Halloween costumes"; "a grotesque reflection in the mirror"
unnatural, monstrous
adj. 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"
Fuzzynyms (6)
eccentric, strange, bizarre, outlandish, outre, weird
adj. conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics"
Synonyms (17)
rummy, rum, singular, queer, strange, curious, funny, peculiar
adj. beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior"
off the beaten track
adj. remote from populous or much-traveled regions; "found a quiet out-of-the-way resort"
quaint
adj. strange in an interesting or pleasing way; "quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"
anthropoid, apelike, anthropoidal
adj. resembling apes
bloodless
adj. devoid of human emotion or feeling; "charts of bloodless economic indicators"
dehumanized, unhuman
adj. divested of human qualities or attributes
mechanical
adj. (nonhuman)
Antonyms (0)
grotesque
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