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Meaning of "grotesquerie" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GROTESQUERIE

grotesquerie  [ɡrəʊˈteskərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GROTESQUERIE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Grotesquerie is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GROTESQUERIE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Grotesquerie

Grotesquerie is a literary form that became a popular genre in the early 20th century. It can be grouped with science fiction and horror. Authors such as Ambrose Bierce, Fritz Leiber, H. Russell Wakefield, Seabury Quinn, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Margaret St. Clair, Stanton A. Coblentz, Lee Brown Coye and Katherine Anne Porter have written books within this genre. The term has also been used to describe macabre artwork and movies, and it is used in architecture.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GROTESQUERIE


apothecary
əˈpɒθɪkərɪ
bakery
ˈbeɪkərɪ
brusquerie
ˈbruːskərɪ
chicory
ˈtʃɪkərɪ
cookery
ˈkʊkərɪ
crockery
ˈkrɒkərɪ
fakery
ˈfeɪkərɪ
flickery
ˈflɪkərɪ
geekery
ˈɡiːkərɪ
grotesquery
ɡrəʊˈtɛskərɪ
hickory
ˈhɪkərɪ
mockery
ˈmɒkərɪ
peccary
ˈpɛkərɪ
piscary
ˈpɪskərɪ
Terpsichore
tɜːpˈsɪkərɪ
Thackeray
ˈθækərɪ
trickery
ˈtrɪkərɪ
vicary
ˈvɪkərɪ
whiskery
ˈwɪskərɪ
Zachary
ˈzækərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GROTESQUERIE

grossular
grossularite
Grosswardein
grosz
groszy
grot
Grote
grotesque
grotesquely
grotesqueness
grotesquery
Grotian
Grotianism
Grotius
grottier
grottiest
grotto
grottoed
grotty
grouch

WORDS THAT END LIKE GROTESQUERIE

batterie
bijouterie
brasserie
camaraderie
charcuterie
confiserie
confrerie
creperie
eerie
faerie
feerie
gendarmerie
Jacquerie
lingerie
menagerie
papeterie
passementerie
patisserie
reverie
rotisserie

Synonyms and antonyms of grotesquerie in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «grotesquerie» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GROTESQUERIE

Find out the translation of grotesquerie to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of grotesquerie from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «grotesquerie» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

怪异图案
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

grotesco
570 millions of speakers

English

grotesquerie
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

grotesquerie
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

grotesquerie
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гротеск
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

grotesco
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

grotesquerie
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

grotesque
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Grotesquerie
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Groteske
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

grotesquerie
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

그로테스크
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Grotesquerie
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

grotesquerie
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

grotesquerie
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कट्टरपंथी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

grotesklikten
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

grottesco
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

groteski
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гротеск
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

grotesquerie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

grotesquerie
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

grotesquerie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

grotesquerie
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

groteske
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of grotesquerie

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GROTESQUERIE»

The term «grotesquerie» is normally little used and occupies the 145.126 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GROTESQUERIE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about grotesquerie

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GROTESQUERIE»

Discover the use of grotesquerie in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to grotesquerie and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Nekropolis Archives
I almost lost it when that weird distortionhit, whatever that was. I didn't just seea phantomcity – I smelled it, too. Anyway, once the ghost city vanished, I picked upthe scent trailagain andfollowed it tothe Grotesquerie. That's where Iam right now.
Tim Waggoner, 2012
2
Dark War: A Matt Richter Novel
The Grotesquerie is located on SybariteStreet,notfar from the Houseof Mysterious Secrets. Itcovers several square milesand is surrounded by a hundredfoothigh wall madeofa polished blacksubstance thatlooks like solidified shadow, atop ...
Tim Waggoner, 2011
3
Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese ...
For our purposes, what is so significant is Wada's account of the hawker's own sense of the grotesquerie of social inequity.40 Wada gives his version of the relationship of the hawker to capital — there is none and there need not be any: " First ...
Miriam Rom Silverberg, 2009
4
Grotesquerie in Selected Works by Béla Bartók
After defining the word 'grotesque', this thesis explores the various distortion techniques in examples of grotesque visual art.
Kent Farbach, 1995
5
Aggressive Fictions: Reading the Contemporary American Novel
its closed world to an end with the birth ofa child with a tail, a traditional grotesquerie that merges human with animal. Mark Dorrian's masculine concept of monstrosity—son rebelling against father—is played out in Arty's destruction of his ...
Kathryn Hume
6
Flannery O'Connor's Religion of the Grotesque
Within the context of her problem, her vision of the hermaphrodite provides her the opportunity to transform her negative grotesquerie into positive grotesquerie. By considering grotesquerie of face and word to result in being struck by God, she ...
Marshall Bruce Gentry
7
Prokofiev
It revealed itself chiefly in a shocking grotesquerie, a bitter caricaturing of reality. Both the leftist artists and theatrical regisseurs were carried away by grotesqueness for its own sake. Stanislavsky called this modernist craze "the offspring of ...
Izrailʹ Vladimirovich Nestʹev, 1960
8
The Puritan Origins of American Sex: Religion, Sexuality, ...
... the measure of a guilt-induced self-loathing that manifests itself in Gardner's work not only thematically but in a love of grotesque characterizations. It is this grotesquerie that transforms his selfstyled character-centered “moral fictions” into a ...
Tracy Fessenden, Nicholas F. Radel, Magdalena J. Zaborowska, 2014
9
Bartók and the Grotesque: Studies in Modernity, the Body and ...
Therefore on the one hand the romantic and on the other hand the buffa opera trade on (the effect of) such scenes.1 Even without any technical detail, or Ebeling/Flogel's animal observation, this lexicon entry describes musical grotesquerie ...
Julie A. Brown, 2007
10
The Critical Response to Flannery O'Connor
What I wish to suggest in this paper is that Hazel Motes is a character who uniquely and powerfully embodies a range of grotesque possibilities and that the negative aspects of Hazel's grotesquerie ultimately reinforce the positive aspects of ...
Douglas Robillard, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GROTESQUERIE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term grotesquerie is used in the context of the following news items.
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Hannibal Recap: Season 3, Episode 6, "Dolce"
... maintain the novel's most ghoulish punchline), but will the weirdly beautiful tone of giallo-tinged grotesquerie be restored by Mason's death? «slantmagazine, Jul 15»
2
Chris Selley: A (partial) defence of the Mother Canada monument
This “Dollywood-level grotesquerie,” this “kitsch glorification of war,” this “brutal megalith” reflective of a “bigger-is-better approach to art (that) is ... «National Post, Jul 15»
3
Be Prepared (For Carnage) In Scout's Guide To The Zombie …
It's a ridiculous little sneak peek clearly meant to recall the irreverent grotesquerie of Zombieland. Some other clips landed online shortly after ... «We Got This Covered, Jul 15»
4
Odd Mom Out: “Midwife Crisis”
The welcome absurdity and grotesquerie of this scene doesn't change the fact that this is one of the most overused sitcom conventions, and the ... «A.V. Club, Jul 15»
5
Ukraine's easy, misunderstood Babel
The grotesquerie remains politically relevant as Europeans discuss the future of Ukraine. Russia's leaders maintain that they have the right to ... «Politico, Jul 15»
6
What's Changed, and What Hasn't, in the Town That Inspired "To Kill …
And that's the odd thing about a great deal of a certain sort of Deep South fiction—its grotesquerie and gothic, its high color and fantastication, the emphasis on ... «Smithsonian, Jul 15»
7
Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders
Still, what matters most is whether one finds Valerie's seemingly random episodes of lyrical grotesquerie mesmerizing or enervating. According ... «A.V. Club DC, Jun 15»
8
Mother Canada? This is Stephen Harper's most un-Canadian gift to …
Another grotesquerie is being hastily planned for the nation's capital, Ottawa. It's a Monument to the Victims of Communism, a huge hideous ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
9
America's firing line
With Charleston, we have the additional grotesquerie of a presidential candidate calling Dylann Roof's extremely deliberate act an "accident", ... «Socialist Worker Online, Jun 15»
10
Open Letter to Television: 'Hannibal' Is the Design We Deserve
Visually it was far more impressive in its baroque grotesquerie than True Detective, a show with the same level of pseudo-intellectualism but ... «New York Observer, Jun 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Grotesquerie [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/grotesquerie>. May 2024 ».
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