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caricature Definition

cari·ca·ture (kari kə c̸hər, -c̸ho̵or′)

noun

  1. a picture or imitation of a person, literary style, etc. in which certain features or mannerisms are exaggerated for satirical effect
  2. the act or art of making such caricatures
  3. 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

cari·ca·tur·ist noun

caricature Synonyms

caricature

n.

burlesque, exaggeration, cartoon; see parody, ridicule. See syn. study at parody.

caricature Synonyms

caricature

v.

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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