grotesque
Definitions
Comically or repulsively ugly or distorted.
A style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms, often interwoven with foliage.
Examples
The artist created a series of grotesque sculptures that both fascinated and repelled the gallery visitors.
The gargoyles perched on the cathedral roof displayed grotesque expressions that seemed to change in the flickering moonlight.
Synonyms
bizarre distorted monstrous deformed fantastical absurd hideous
Antonyms
beautiful normal graceful appealing standard proportional attractive