The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - grotesque adj.

1) distorted, bizarre, freakish, twisted, misshapen, malformed, deformed, gruesome, gnarled: Victor Hugo created the character of Quasimodo, the grotesque bell-ringer of Notre Dame. 2 absurd, incongruous, weird, odd, fantastic, strange, queer, peculiar, curious, outlandish, offbeat, abnormal, aberrant, anomalous, ludicrous, ridiculous, preposterous: The idea of marrying Leonard is too grotesque for even Gladys to contemplate.