grotesquely

1. 1.

   in a grotesque manner

   “behind the house lay two nude figures grotesquely bald, with deliberate knife-slashes marking their bodies”

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Questions about grotesquely

What does grotesquely mean?

grotesquely means "in a grotesque manner".

How many syllables are in grotesquely?

grotesquely has 3 syllables: grote-squel-y. The stress falls on "squel". In IPA it is /ɡɹoʊˈtɛskli/.

What is another word for grotesquely?

Close synonyms include monstrously. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is grotesquely a common word?

grotesquely is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.