Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A representation, especially pictorial or literary, in which the subject's distinctive features or peculiarities are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic or grotesque effect.
- noun The art of creating such representations.
- noun A grotesque imitation or misrepresentation.
- transitive verb To represent or imitate in an exaggerated, distorted manner.
from The Century Dictionary.
- pret. and pp. caricatured, ppr. caricaturing. [⟨ caricature, n.; = French caricaturer = Sp. caricaturar.] To make or draw a caricature of; represent in the manner of a caricature; burlesque.
- noun A representation, pictorial or descriptive, in which beauties or favorable points are concealed or perverted and peculiarities or defects exaggerated, so as to make the person or thing represented ridiculous, while a general likeness is retained.
- noun Synonyms Caricature, Burlesque, Parody, Travesty. The distinguishing mark of a caricature is that it absurdly exaggerates that which is characteristic, it may be by picture or by language. A burlesque renders its subject ludicrous by an incongruous manner of treating it, as by treating a grave subject lightly, or a light subject gravely. Burlesque may be intentional or not. A parody intentionally burlesques a literary composition, generally a poem, by imitating its form, style, or language. In a parody the characters are changed, while in a travesty they are retained, only the language being made absurd. (See
travesty .) In a burlesque of a literary work the characters are generally changed into others which ludicrously suggest their originals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make or draw a caricature of; to represent with ridiculous exaggeration; to burlesque.
- noun An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
pictorial representation of someone in whichdistinguishing features areexaggerated forcomic effect . - noun A
grotesque misrepresentation . - verb To
represent someone in anexaggerated ordistorted manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb represent in or produce a caricature of
- noun a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Ah, dualism; that left-brain/right-brain caricature is a pernicious one, isn't it?
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Ah, dualism; that left-brain/right-brain caricature is a pernicious one, isn't it?
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Ah, dualism; that left-brain/right-brain caricature is a pernicious one, isn't it?
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Certainly, the caricature is a supression of freedom, in the name of protecting it.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Much Easier to Fight Caricatures 2010
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The pleasure of the caricature is therefore like that of a voyeur witnessing a sexual aggression against the
'Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s 2006
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This was the period in his life when he started living out what he called a caricature of black male adolescence.
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It often happens that a "caricature" is as accurate as a photograph.
Real Caricature, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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February 15th, 2009 at 5: 41 pm whatever a black caricature is supposed to write about.
Matthew Yglesias » Mark Bowden, Atlantic, Shilling for the F-22 2009
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Otherwise, the art is sufficient but nothing outstanding, based in caricature to convey the excessive emotions that drive people to crime or are suffered by the victims.
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That one above the Arnold caricature is really cool ... lots of atmosphere.
Conan Digital Art on CGHub! Cromsblood 2010
milosrdenstvi commented on the word caricature
The flowers that bloom in the spring,
Have nothing to do with the case.
I've got to take under my wing,
A most unattractive old thing,
With a caricature of a face
And that's what I mean when I say, or I sing,
"Oh, bother the flowers that bloom in the spring."
W.S. Gilbert, The Mikado
August 21, 2008