Grotesque vs Rot - What's the difference?
grotesque | rot |
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.
To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
* Alexander Pope
To decline in function or utility.
To deteriorate in any way.
* Macaulay
* Thackeray
To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
* Milton
Verbal nonsense.
As nouns the difference between grotesque and rot
is that grotesque is a style of ornamentation characterized by fanciful combinations of intertwined forms while rot is meat roasted on a spit.As an adjective grotesque
is distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous.grotesque
English
(wikipedia grotesque)Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Noun
(en noun)External links
* ----rot
English
Verb
(rott)- Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot .
- I hope they all rot in prison for what they've done.
- Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons.
- Rot , poor bachelor, in your club.
- to rot vegetable fiber
Derived terms
* potter's rotNoun
(en noun)- His cattle must of rot and murrain die.