'Caricature' definitions:
Definition of 'caricature'
(from WordNet)
noun
A representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect [syn: caricature, imitation, impersonation]
verb
Represent in or produce a caricature of; "The drawing caricatured the President" [syn: caricature, ape]
Definition of 'Caricature'
From: GCIDE
- Caricature \Car"i*ca*ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Caricatured; p. pr. & vb. n. Caricaturing.] 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. --Lord Lyttelton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Caricature'
From: GCIDE
- Caricature \Car"i*ca*ture\, n. [It. caricatura, fr. caricare to charge, overload, exaggerate. See Charge, v. t.]
- 1. An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [Formerly written caricatura.] [1913 Webster]
- The truest likeness of the prince of French literature will be the one that has most of the look of a caricature. --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- A grotesque caricature of virtue. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'caricature'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aggrandize,
- aggrandizement,
- agile wit,
- amplification,
- amplify,
- anamorphosis,
- animated cartoon,
- Atticism,
- 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