Vocabulary
Grotesque
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
comically or repulsively ugly or distorted.
Urdu meaning
حیرت انگیز، بگڑی ہوئی شکل
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- But its mask often slips, unveiling a visage even more grotesque than the public image it seeks to project.
- But its mask often slips, unveiling a visage even more grotesque than the public image it seeks to project.
- Two years into Israel`s war on Gaza, the global debate is still trapped in grotesque semantics: is this genocide, or `merely ethnic cleansing`?
- Sometimes reality is far more grotesque than fiction.
- To make the unspeakable crime more grotesque, a security search was carried out for the Pahalgam suspects in a Sri Lankan plane that arrived in Colombo from Chennai.
Synonyms
malformed, deformed, misshapen, misproportioned, distorted, twisted, gnarled
Antonyms
ordinary, normal
Curator example
“a figure wearing a grotesque mask”
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