caricature Definition
cari·ca·ture (kar′i kə c̸hər, -c̸ho̵or′)
noun
- a picture or imitation of a person, literary style, etc. in which certain features or mannerisms are exaggerated for satirical effect
- the act or art of making such caricatures
- a likeness or imitation that is so distorted or inferior as to seem ludicrous
Etymology: Fr < It caricatura, satirical picture, lit., an overloading < caricare, to load, exaggerate < VL carricare: see charge
transitive verb -·tured, -·tur·ing
to depict in or as in a caricature
caricature Related Forms
car′i·ca·tur·ist noun
caricature Synonyms
caricature Synonyms
caricature Usage Examples
Object
- portrait: This involved drawing caricature portraits of various musical artists for the magazine's LP review section.
- artist: Since most caricature artists have websites these days, it is easy to view their samples online.
Converse of object
- draw: During the evening Malcolm Lee helped raise funds by drawing caricatures of some of the guests.
- publish: The Danish daily newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, published 12 caricatures of the Prophet.
- produce: Students will produce caricatures which will then be translated into a 3-dimensional, working puppet.
- create: He has enjoyed creating car caricatures for over 20 years on a commission only basis.
- become: The world, in the person of those we meet, must shape our lives or else we become unhealthy caricatures of ourselves.
Adjective modifier
- crude: Ugly, pubescent, often lower class and furnished with a regional accent the dummy is a crude technical caricature of the human body.
- gross: The touches are seldom light, or delicate; the brush is heavy, the color loaded; the picture appears a gross caricature.
- mere: These poor animals are mere caricatures of their magnificent wild counterparts.
- comic: That we are so ready to empathize with these comic caricatures is as much reflects of Roberts ' craft as the audience's sentimentality.
- political: I sat down and turned over two large portfolios of political caricatures.
Modifies a noun
portrait: Caricature Weddings Personalize your wedding stationery with your own caricature portrait.
Modifying Another Word
- rather: This is probably the most common fault with peoples drawings, resulting in a cartoon or caricature rather than a realistic portrait.
- often: Perhaps one reason why films like this are so popular is because evil is often caricatured.
Noun used with modifier
cartoon: Rather than using photographs to complement each profile, the firm have instead used cartoon caricatures.
Preposition: of
- Marxism: Faced with this caricature of Marxism, Debord improvised a critique.
- socialism: We have paid a very heavy price for Stalinism's monstrous caricature of socialism.
- prophet: The Danish paper responsible for the original caricatures of the prophet Muhammad is set to run cartoons satirizing the Holocaust.
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