Grotesque vs Horrendous - What's the difference?
grotesque | horrendous | Related terms |
distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous
disgusting or otherwise viscerally reviling.
(typography) sans serif.
A style of ornamentation characterized by fanciful combinations of intertwined forms.
Anything grotesque.
(typography) A sans serif typeface.
Extremely bad; awful; terrible.
* There was horrendous carnage at the scene of the plane crash.
* My journey to work this morning was horrendous !
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
, title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered
, volume=100, issue=2, page=87
, magazine=
Grotesque is a related term of horrendous.
As adjectives the difference between grotesque and horrendous
is that grotesque is distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous while horrendous is extremely bad; awful; terrible.As a noun grotesque
is a style of ornamentation characterized by fanciful combinations of intertwined forms.grotesque
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* ----horrendous
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea. Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.}}