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# grotesque

«grotesque» in Mova's school dictionary: **Strange, distorted and ugly in a silly or frightening way** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more grotesque, most grotesque); noun (grotesques)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Strange, distorted and ugly in a silly or frightening way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grotesque/#m1)

2) A grotesque is a strange carved or painted figure. (noun) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grotesque/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

devils, monsters and odd faces in old tales are described as grotesque

### examples

- The gargoyle had a grotesque face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grotesque/#x1)
- The devil looked grotesque in the firelight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grotesque/#x2)
- Grotesque faces grinned at us from the carved walls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grotesque/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «grotesque» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grotesque/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.