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グロテスク (gurotesuku) Japanese meaning: grotesque | Kotomora
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The painting depicted a grotesque monster.
His joke was so bizarre that nobody laughed.
Usage patterns 〈 物もの 〉 がグロテスクに 見み える for something to look grotesque
His scar looked grotesque.
グロテスクな 〈 物もの 〉 a grotesque ~ (e.g. figure, image, expression)
The painting depicted a grotesque monster.
Related words· 6 奇怪 emphasizes mysterious, eerie strangeness, whereas グロテスク stresses a disturbing, physically distorted quality.
異様 simply means 'unusual' or 'out of the ordinary' without the repulsive, distorted connotation that グロテスク carries.
不気味 focuses on an eerie, unsettling feeling, while グロテスク adds a specifically grotesque, physically distorted or repulsive image.
醜悪 describes something ugly and morally or aesthetically repugnant, while グロテスク centers on bizarre, distorted form rather than moral ugliness.
Show 2 more グロ is the casual, clipped form used in everyday speech and online, while グロテスク is the fuller, more formal word that can also describe artistic or literary grotesqueness beyond just gore.
グロテスク is a loanword typically for intentionally distorted or ugly art/design, whereas 異形 covers any fantastical or eerie shape, natural or not.
Etymology Loanword from English 'grotesque', ultimately from Italian 'grottesco' (of a cave), referring to extravagant ancient Roman decorative art discovered in ruins.
