About The Word Caricature

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Caricature

Caricature Meaning & Definition
Caricature Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Caricature?

[n] a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect
[v] represent in or produce a caricature of; "The drawing caricatured the President"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Caricature: ape | imitation | impersonation

Related Terms | Find terms related to Caricature: aggrandize | aggrandizement | agile wit | amplification | amplify | anamorphosis | animated cartoon | Atticism | bad likeness | ballyhoo | belie | big talk | black humor | blowing up | bosh | botch | build up | bunk | burlesque | camouflage | carry too far | cartoon | cheat | clinquant | color | comedy | comic book | comic strip | comics | daub | dilatation | dilation | disguise | distort | distortion | draw the longbow | dry wit | enhancement | enlargement | esprit | exaggerate | exaggerating | exaggeration | excess | exorbitance | expansion | extravagance | extreme | fake | falsify | farce | funnies | gammon | garble | go to extremes | grandiloquence | heightening | hit off on | hokum | huckstering | humor | hyperbole | hyperbolism | hyperbolize | imitation | inflation | inordinacy | irony | lampoon | laughingstock | lay it on | libel | magnification | magnify | make much of | miscolor | misquote | misreport | misrepresent | misstate | misteach | mock | mockery | moonshine | nimble wit | overcharge | overdo | overdraw | overemphasis | overestimate | overestimation | overkill | overpraise | overreach | overreact | oversell | overspeak | overstate | overstatement | overstress | parody | pasquinade | pastiche | pervert | phony | pile it on | pinchbeck | pleasantry | pretty wit | prodigality | profuseness | puff | puffery | puffing up | quick wit | ready wit | ridicule | salt | sarcasm | satire | satirize | savor of wit | scratch | scribble | send up | sensationalism | sham | shoddy | slant | slapstick | slapstick humor | spoof | squib | stretch | stretch the truth | stretching | subtle wit | superlative | take off | take off on | takeoff | take-off | talk big | talk in superlatives | tall talk | tinsel | tout | touting | travesty | twist | understate | visual humor | warp | wicked imitation | wit | wrench

See Also | burlesque | charade | humor | humour | lampoon | mock | mockery | parody | pasquinade | put-on | sendup | spoof | takeoff | travesty | wit | witticism | wittiness

Caricature In Webster's Dictionary

\Car"i*ca*ture\, n. [It. caricatura, fr. caricare to charge, overload, exaggerate. See {Charge}, v. t.] 1. An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture. 2. A picture or other figure or description in which the peculiarities of a person or thing are so exaggerated as to appear ridiculous; a burlesque; a parody. [Formerly written {caricatura}.] The truest likeness of the prince of French literature will be the one that has most of the look of a caricature. --I. Taylor. A grotesque caricature of virtue. --Macaulay.
\Car"i*ca*ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Caricatured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Caricaturing}.] To make or draw a caricature of; to represent with ridiculous exaggeration; to burlesque. He could draw an ill face, or caricature a good one, with a masterly hand. --Lord Lyttelton.

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