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Caricature

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Noun, Verb (transitive)
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Caricature has 1 sense

Verb Caricature has 1 sense

  • caricature(v = verb.communication) ape - represent in or produce a caricature of; "The drawing caricatured the President"
  • is one way to mock
    Derived form noun caricature1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something

CIDE DICTIONARY

Caricaturen. [It. caricatura, fr. caricare to charge, overload, exaggerate. See Charge, v. t.].
  •  An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
    "The truest likeness of the prince of French literature will be the one that has most of the look of a caricature."  [1913 Webster]
    "A grotesque caricature of virtue."  [1913 Webster]
Caricaturev. t. 
     To make or draw a caricature of; to represent with ridiculous exaggeration; to burlesque.  [1913 Webster]
    "He could draw an ill face, or caricature a good one, with a masterly hand."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Caricature, n. & v.
--n.
1 a grotesque usu. comic representation of a person by exaggeration of characteristic traits, in a picture, writing, or mime.
2 a ridiculously poor or absurd imitation or version.
--v.tr. make or give a caricature of.

Derivative
caricatural adj. caricaturist n.
Etymology
F f. It. caricatura f. caricare load, exaggerate: see CHARGE

THESAURUS

Caricature

Atticism, aggrandize, aggrandizement, agile wit, amplification, amplify, anamorphosis, animated cartoon, 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, take-off, takeoff, talk big, talk in superlatives, tall talk, tinsel, tout, touting, travesty, twist, understate, visual humor, warp, wicked imitation, wit, wrench

ROGET THESAURUS

Caricature

Imitation

N imitation, copying, transcription, repetition, duplication, reduplication, quotation, reproduction, mimeograph, xerox, facsimile, reprint, offprint, mockery, mimicry, simulation, impersonation, personation, representation, semblance, copy, assimilation, paraphrase, parody, take-off, lampoon, caricature, plagiarism, forgery, counterfeit, celluloid, imitator, echo, cuckoo, parrot, ape, monkey, mocking bird, mime, copyist, copycat, plagiarist, pirate, imitated, mock, mimic, modelled after, molded on, paraphrastic, literal, imitative, secondhand, imitable, aping, apish, mimicking, literally, to the letter, verbatim, literatim, sic, totidem verbis, word for word, mot a mot, exactly, precisely, like master like man, like - but oh! how different!, genius borrows nobly, pursuing echoes calling 'mong the rocks, quotation confesses inferiority, Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

VB imitate, copy, mirror, reflect, reproduce, repeat, do like, echo, reecho, catch, transcribe, match, parallel, mock, take off, mimic, ape, simulate, impersonate, personate, act, represent, counterfeit, parody, travesty, caricature, lampoon, burlesque, follow in the steps of, tread in the steps, follow in the footsteps of, follow in the wake of, take pattern by, follow suit, follow the example of, walk in the shoes of, take a leaf out of another's book, strike in with, follow suit, take after, model after, emulate.

Copy

N copy, facsimile, counterpart, effigies, effigy, form, likeness, image, picture, photo, xerox, similitude, semblance, ectype, photo offset, electrotype, imitation, model, representation, adumbration, study, portrait, resemblance, duplicate, reproduction, cast, tracing, reflex, reflexion, reflection, shadow, echo, transcript, transcription, recording, scan, chip off the old block, reprint, new printing, rechauffe, apograph, fair copy, parody, caricature, burlesque, travesty, travestie, paraphrase, derivative, derivation, modification, expansion, extension, revision, second edition, servile copy, servile imitation, plagiarism, counterfeit, fake, pasticcio, faithful, lifelike, close, conscientious, unoriginal, imitative, derivative.

Ridicule

N ridicule, derision, sardonic smile, sardonic grin, irrision, scoffing, mockery, quiz, banter, irony, persiflage, raillery, chaff, badinage, quizzing, asteism, squib, satire, skit, quip, quib, grin, parody, burlesque, travesty, travestie, farce, caricature, buffoonery, practical joke, horseplay, scorn, contempt, derisory, derisive, mock, mocking, sarcastic, ironic, ironical, quizzical, burlesque, Hudibrastic, scurrilous, in ridicule.

VB ridicule, deride, mock, taunt, snigger, laugh in one's sleeve, tease, badinage, banter, rally, chaff, joke, twit, quiz, roast, haze, tehee, fleer, show up, play upon, play tricks upon, fool to the top of one's bent, laugh at, grin at, smile at, poke fun at, satirize, parody, caricature, burlesque, travesty, turn into ridicule, make merry with, make fun of, make game of, make a fool of, make an April fool of, rally, scoff, raise a laugh, play the fool, make a fool of oneself.

Exaggeration

N exaggeration, expansion, hyperbole, stretch, strain, coloring, high coloring, caricature, caricatura, extravagance, Baron Munchausen, men in buckram, yarn, fringe, embroidery, traveler's tale, fish story, gooseberry, storm in a teacup, much ado about nothing, puff, puffery, rant, figure of speech, facon de parler, stretch of fancy, stretch of the imagination, flight of fancy, false coloring, aggravation, exaggerated, overwrought, bombastic, hyperbolical, on stilts, fabulous, extravagant, preposterous, egregious, outre, highflying, hyperbolically, excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo.

Misrepresentation

N misrepresentation, distortion, caricatura, exaggeration, daubing, bad likeness, daub, sign painting, scratch, caricature, anamorphosis, burlesque, falsification, misstatement, parody, lampoon, take-off, travesty, misrepresented.

VB misrepresent, distort, overdraw, exaggerate, caricature, daub, burlesque, parody, travesty.

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