grotesque

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of GROTESQUE

a strange or horrible and often frightening creature <a gallery of grotesques from some sicko horror movie>

Synonyms grotesque, grotesquerie (also grotesquery), monstrosity, ogre

Related Words ogress; Frankenstein; bête noire, bogey (also bogie or bogy), bugaboo, bugbear; banshee, bogeyman (also bogyman), demon (or daemon), devil, fiend, fright, imp, incubus; horror, terror; abomination, anathema; abnormality, freak; mutant, mutation

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