caricature

Speech parts

1. caricature - Noun

2. caricature - Adjective

3. caricature - Verb

Meaning

An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.

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.

To make or draw a caricature of; to represent with ridiculous exaggeration; to burlesque.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

ape imitation impersonation josh orientalism doodle lampoon razz picture copy portrait impression illustration depiction sketch
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Antonyms

true adore actual valid worship legitimate
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Hypernyms

humor mock humour wit witticism wittiness

Hyponyms

lampoon parody mockery burlesque travesty takeoff

Phrases with the word

caricature somebody animated caricature

Derivatives

caricatured caricaturing

Examples

The drawing caricatured the President Source: Internet

AB5, authored by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, is based on an outdated caricature of the workplace in which employers are rich robber barons and workers can only avoid exploitation by joining labor unions. Source: Internet

2007 NIOD report The report describes Rispens' presentation of Debye, as an opportunist who had no objection to the Nazis, as a caricature. Source: Internet

Anonymous caricature in 1916 Purishkevich, a buffoon character, stated that Rasputin's influence over the Tsarina had made him a threat to the empire: "an illiterate moujik shall govern Russia no longer!" citation "While Rasputin is alive, we cannot win". Source: Internet

Bondanella, The Cinema of Federico Fellini, 192 As he saw it, the clown "was always the caricature of a well-established, ordered, peaceful society. Source: Internet

But as he spoke those words in Georgia, he didn’t resemble the old-man caricature Trumpists have tried so hard to create. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

caricaturable caricatural caricaturally caricature plant caricature somebody caricaturesque