How to say "grotesque" in Japanese

• グロテスクCommon
  na-adjectiveThe direct loanword and the most all-purpose choice: it covers 'grotesque' as bizarre, weird or strange, typically for distorted, unsettling appearances in art, faces or designs.
  ベイスギを材料ざいりょうに巨大きょだいでグロテスクな、しかし美うつくしい円柱えんちゅうを作つくった。↗

  They made huge, grotesque, yet beautiful poles of red cedar.
• グロCommon
  na-adjective, nounThe short form of グロテスク, used on its own with the same basic meaning; a typical context is reacting to gory, disgusting or shocking imagery.
• 怪奇かいきCommon
  na-adjective, nounA noun for the eerie, uncanny side of 'grotesque': it names weirdness and mystery rather than ugly distortion, typically in writing about strange or macabre happenings.

Choose 「グロテスク」 as the direct equivalent for bizarre or distorted ugliness, 「グロ」 as its short form for gory or shocking content, and 怪奇 when 'grotesque' means eerie, mysterious weirdness.

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• グロテスクgrotesque
• グロgrotesque
• グロいgrotesque
• 異形いぎょうfantastic
• 怪奇かいきgrotesque
• 猟奇的りょうきてきbizarre (crime, etc.)