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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Gothic, aberrant, abnormal, absurd, anomalous, antic, art object, bandy, bandy-legged, baroque, beyond belief, bizarre, blemished, bloated, bowlegged, brain-born, brainchild, bric-a-brac, cacogenic, classic, club-footed, cockamamie, comic, comical, composition, crazy, creation, curious, defaced, deformed, design, disfigured, distorted, dream-built, droll, dwarfed, eerie, extravagant, extreme, fanciful, fancy-born, fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasque, fantastic, flamboyant, flatfooted, florid, foolish, freak, freakish, gargoylish, gnarled, gruesome, high-flown, ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, incongruous, incredible, kitsch, knock-kneed, laughable, ludicrous, maggoty, malformed, marred, master, masterpiece, masterwork, misbegotten, misproportioned, misshapen, mobile, monstrous, museum piece, mutilated, nonsensical, notional, nude, odd, offbeat, old master, out of shape, outlandish, outrageous, outre, pasticcio, pastiche, peculiar, piece, piece of virtu, pigeon-toed, poppycockish, preposterous, pug-nosed, queer, rachitic, rickety, ridiculous, rococo, shapeless, simous, snub-nosed, stabile, statue, still life, strange, study, stumpy, swaybacked, talipedic, teratic, teratogenic, teratoid, truncated, twisted, uncanny, unshapely, virtu, weird, whimsical, wild, work, work of art

Dictionary Results for grotesque:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

grotesque
    adj 1: 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"
           [syn: grotesque, monstrous]
    2: ludicrously odd; "Hamlet's assumed antic disposition";
       "fantastic Halloween costumes"; "a grotesque reflection in
       the mirror" [syn: antic, fantastic, fantastical,
       grotesque]
    n 1: art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of
         humans and animals interwoven with plants

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Grotesque \Gro*tesque"\ (gr[-o]*t[e^]sk"), a. [F., fr. It.
   grottesco, fr. grotta grotto. See Grotto.]
   1. Like the figures found in ancient grottoes; grottolike.
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   2. Hence: Wildly or strangely formed; whimsical; extravagant;
      of irregular forms and proportions; fantastic; ludicrous;
      antic. "Grotesque design." --Dryden. "Grotesque
      incidents." --Macaulay.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Grotesque \Gro*tesque\, n.
   1. A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old
      crypts and grottoes. --Dryden.
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   2. Artificial grotto-work.
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