grotesquerie | Definition of grotesquerie

Synonyms and Antonyms of grotesquerie

a strange or horrible and often frightening creature

born Joseph Merrick, the so-called Elephant Man was for a time exhibited as a sideshow grotesquerie

Synonyms of grotesquerie

grotesque, monster, monstrosity, ogre

Words Related to grotesquerie

bête noire, bogey (also bogie), bugaboo, bugbear

banshee, bogeyman (also bogyman), demon (or daemon), devil, fiend, fright, imp, incubus

abomination, anathema

abnormality, freak

mutant, mutation