grotesquerie

What does grotesquerie mean?

grotesquerie means "ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion".

How many syllables are in grotesquerie?

grotesquerie has 4 syllables and divides as gro-te-sque-rie under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for grotesquerie?

Close synonyms include grotesqueness, grotesquery. 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 grotesquerie a common word?

grotesquerie 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for grotesquerie come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.