Related Words:
- grotesque
collapse - art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants
- distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous; "tales of grotesque serpents eight fathoms long that churned the seas"; "twisted into monstrous shapes" related words >
- Gothic,
- aberrant,
- abnormal,
- absurd,
- anomalous,
- antic,
- art object,
- bandy,
- bandy-legged,
- baroque,
- beyond belief,
- bizarre,
- blemished,
- bloated,
- bowlegged,
- brain-born,
- brainchild,
- bric-a-brac,
- cacogenic,
- classic,
- club-footed,
- cockamamie,
- comic,
- comical,
- composition,
- crazy,
- creation,
- curious,
- defaced,
- deformed,
- design,
- disfigured,
- distorted,
- dream-built,
- droll,
- dwarfed,
- eerie,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- fanciful,
- fancy-born,
- fancy-built,
- fancy-woven,
- fantasque,
- fantastic,
- flamboyant,
- flatfooted,
- florid,
- foolish,
- freak,
- freakish,
- gargoylish,
- gnarled,
- gruesome,
- high-flown,
- ill-made,
- ill-proportioned,
- ill-shaped,
- incongruous,
- incredible,
- kitsch,
- knock-kneed,
- laughable,
- ludicrous,
- maggoty,
- malformed,
- marred,
- master,
- masterpiece,
- masterwork,
- misbegotten,
- misproportioned,
- misshapen,
- mobile,
- monstrous,
- museum piece,
- mutilated,
- nonsensical,
- notional,
- nude,
- odd,
- offbeat,
- old master,
- out of shape,
- outlandish,
- outrageous,
- outre,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- peculiar,
- piece,
- piece of virtu,
- pigeon-toed,
- poppycockish,
- preposterous,
- pug-nosed,
- queer,
- rachitic,
- rickety,
- ridiculous,
- rococo,
- shapeless,
- simous,
- snub-nosed,
- stabile,
- statue,
- still life,
- strange,
- study,
- stumpy,
- swaybacked,
- talipedic,
- teratic,
- teratogenic,
- teratoid,
- truncated,
- twisted,
- uncanny,
- unshapely,
- virtu,
- weird,
- whimsical,
- wild,
- work,
- work of art
- vignette
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- a small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books)
- a photograph whose edges shade off gradually related words >
- Bildungsroman,
- Gothic novel,
- aquatint,
- autolithograph,
- black and white,
- block,
- block print,
- brouillon,
- cameo,
- cartoon,
- catalog,
- cataloging,
- character,
- character sketch,
- characterization,
- charcoal,
- charcoal drawing,
- chiaroscuro,
- chromolithograph,
- color print,
- comic novel,
- copperplate,
- copperplate print,
- crayon,
- crayon engraving,
- cut,
- delineation,
- depiction,
- description,
- design,
- details,
- detective novel,
- diagram,
- dime novel,
- doodle,
- draft,
- drawing,
- dreadful,
- ebauche,
- engravement,
- engraving,
- epistolary novel,
- erotic novel,
- esquisse,
- etching,
- evocation,
- graph,
- graphic account,
- graphotype,
- historical novel,
- image,
- imagery,
- impress,
- impression,
- imprint,
- itemization,
- limning,
- line drawing,
- linoleum-block print,
- lithograph,
- mezzotint,
- negative,
- nouvelle,
- novel,
- novel of character,
- novel of ideas,
- novel of incident,
- novel of manners,
- novel of sensibility,
- novelette,
- novella,
- particularization,
- pastel,
- pen-and-ink,
- pencil drawing,
- penny dreadful,
- photograph,
- picaresque novel,
- picture,
- pornographic novel,
- portrayal,
- print,
- problem novel,
- profile,
- proletarian novel,
- propaganda novel,
- psychological novel,
- regional novel,
- rendering,
- rendition,
- representation,
- river novel,
- roman,
- roman a clef,
- roman-fleuve,
- rough copy,
- rough draft,
- rough outline,
- rubber-block print,
- satirical novel,
- science-fiction novel,
- sentimental novel,
- shilling shocker,
- short story,
- short-short,
- silhouette,
- silver-print drawing,
- sinopia,
- sketch,
- sociological novel,
- specification,
- storiette,
- stream-of-consciousness novel,
- study,
- thesis novel,
- tracing,
- vivid description,
- wood engraving,
- woodblock,
- woodcut,
- woodprint,
- word painting,
- xylograph
- minstrel show
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- a variety show in which the performers are made up in blackface
- a troupe of performers in blackface typically giving a comic program of negro songs and jokes related words >
- Broadway musical,
- Grand Guignol,
- Passion play,
- Singspiel,
- Tom show,
- antimasque,
- audience success,
- ballad opera,
- ballet,
- ballet divertissement,
- bomb,
- broadcast drama,
- burlesque show,
- charade,
- chorus show,
- cliff hanger,
- closet drama,
- comedy ballet,
- comedy drama,
- comic opera,
- critical success,
- dance drama,
- daytime serial,
- dialogue,
- documentary drama,
- drama,
- dramalogue,
- dramatic play,
- dramatic series,
- duodrama,
- duologue,
- epic theater,
- experimental theater,
- extravaganza,
- failure,
- flop,
- gasser,
- giveaway,
- grand opera,
- happening,
- hit,
- hit show,
- improvisational drama,
- legitimate drama,
- light opera,
- lyric drama,
- masque,
- melodrama,
- minstrel,
- miracle,
- miracle play,
- monodrama,
- monologue,
- morality,
- morality play,
- music drama,
- musical,
- musical comedy,
- musical revue,
- musical stage,
- musical theater,
- mystery,
- mystery play,
- opera,
- opera ballet,
- opera bouffe,
- opera buffa,
- operetta,
- pageant,
- panel show,
- pantomime,
- pastoral,
- pastoral drama,
- piece,
- play,
- playlet,
- problem play,
- psychodrama,
- quiz show,
- radio drama,
- review,
- revue,
- sensational play,
- serial,
- show,
- sitcom,
- situation comedy,
- sketch,
- skit,
- soap,
- soap opera,
- sociodrama,
- song-and-dance act,
- song-play,
- spectacle,
- stage play,
- stage show,
- straight drama,
- success,
- suspense drama,
- tableau,
- tableau vivant,
- talk show,
- teleplay,
- television drama,
- television play,
- theater of cruelty,
- total theater,
- variety show,
- vaudeville,
- vaudeville show,
- vehicle,
- word-of-mouth success,
- work
- absurd
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- a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless; "The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth"--Albert Camus
- inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense; "the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman
- incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous" related words >
- Pickwickian,
- a bit thick,
- a bit thin,
- abnormal,
- amusing,
- anomalous,
- asinine,
- balmy,
- barred,
- beyond belief,
- bizarre,
- childish,
- closed-out,
- cockamamie,
- comic,
- contrary to reason,
- crazy,
- curious,
- daft,
- disproportionate,
- doubtable,
- doubtful,
- droll,
- dubious,
- dubitable,
- eccentric,
- empty,
- excluded,
- extravagant,
- fantastic,
- farcical,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- foolish,
- freaked out,
- freaky,
- funny,
- futile,
- grotesque,
- hard of belief,
- hard to believe,
- harebrained,
- high-flown,
- hilarious,
- hollow,
- hopeless,
- humorous,
- idiotic,
- idle,
- illogical,
- imbecile,
- imbecilic,
- implausible,
- impossible,
- inane,
- incoherent,
- incommensurable,
- incommensurate,
- incompatible,
- inconceivable,
- incongruous,
- inconsequent,
- inconsistent,
- inconsonant,
- incredible,
- insane,
- irrational,
- irreconcilable,
- kooky,
- laughable,
- logically impossible,
- loony,
- ludicrous,
- mad,
- meaningless,
- monstrous,
- moronic,
- nonsensical,
- not deserving belief,
- not possible,
- nuts,
- nutty,
- odd,
- oddball,
- off,
- off the wall,
- open to doubt,
- open to suspicion,
- out,
- out of proportion,
- outlandish,
- outrageous,
- outre,
- oxymoronic,
- paradoxical,
- passing belief,
- passing strange,
- peculiar,
- poppycockish,
- potty,
- preposterous,
- priceless,
- problematic,
- prohibited,
- quaint,
- queer,
- questionable,
- quizzical,
- rich,
- ridiculous,
- risible,
- rubbishy,
- ruled-out,
- screaming,
- self-contradictory,
- senseless,
- silly,
- simple,
- singular,
- skimble-skamble,
- staggering belief,
- strange,
- stupid,
- suspect,
- suspicious,
- tall,
- thick,
- thin,
- trashy,
- twaddling,
- twaddly,
- unbelievable,
- unconvincing,
- unearthly,
- ungodly,
- unimaginable,
- unreasonable,
- unsound,
- unthinkable,
- unworthy of belief,
- vain,
- wacky,
- weird,
- whimsical,
- wild,
- witty,
- wondrous strange
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