'Travesty' definitions:
Definition of 'travesty'
(from WordNet)
noun
A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations [syn: farce, farce comedy, travesty]
noun
A composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way [syn: parody, lampoon, spoof, sendup, mockery, takeoff, burlesque, travesty, charade, pasquinade, put-on]
verb
Make a travesty of
Definition of 'Travesty'
From: GCIDE
- Travesty \Trav"es*ty\, a. [F. travesti, p. p. of travestir to disguise, to travesty, It. travestire, fr. L. trans across, over + vestire to dress, clothe. See Vest.] Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; -- applied to a book or shorter composition. [R.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Travesty'
From: GCIDE
- Travesty \Trav"es*ty\, n.; pl. Travesties. A burlesque translation or imitation of a work. [1913 Webster]
- The second edition is not a recast, but absolutely a travesty of the first. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Travesty'
From: GCIDE
- Travesty \Trav"es*ty\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Travestied; p. pr. & vb. n. Travesting.] To translate, imitate, or represent, so as to render ridiculous or ludicrous. [1913 Webster]
- I see poor Lucan travestied, not appareled in his Roman toga, but under the cruel shears of an English tailor. --Bentley. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'travesty'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aggrandize,
- aggrandizement,
- agile wit,
- amplification,
- amplify,
- anamorphosis,
- ape,
- Atticism,
- bad likeness,
- ballyhoo,
- belie,
- big talk,
- black humor,
- blowing up,
- botch,
- build up,
- burlesque,
- camouflage,
- caricature,
- carry too far,
- color,
- comedy,
- copy,
- daub,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- disguise,
- distort,
- distortion,
- draw the longbow,
- dry wit,
- dummy,
- duplication,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- esprit,
- exaggerate,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- extravagance,
- extreme,
- facsimile,
- falsify,
- farce,
- garble,
- go to extremes,
- grandiloquence,
- heightening,
- hit off on,
- huckstering,
- humor,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- hyperbolize,
- imitate,
- imitation,
- inflation,
- inordinacy,
- irony,
- knockoff,
- lampoon,
- lay it on,
- magnification,
- magnify,
- make much of,
- mimicry,
- miscolor,
- misquote,
- misreport,
- misrepresent,
- misstate,
- misteach,
- mock,
- mock-up,
- mockery,
- model,
- nimble wit,
- overcharge,
- overdo,
- overdraw,
- overemphasis,
- overestimate,
- overestimation,
- overkill,
- overpraise,
- overreach,
- overreact,
- oversell,
- overspeak,
- overstate,
- overstatement,
- overstress,
- paraphrase,
- parody,
- pastiche,
- pervert,
- pile it on,
- pleasantry,
- pretty wit,
- prodigality,
- profuseness,
- puff,
- puffery,
- puffing up,
- quick wit,
- ready wit,
- replica,
- representation,
- reproduction,
- ridicule,
- salt,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- satirize,
- savor of wit,
- scratch,
- scribble,
- sensationalism,
- sham,
- slant,
- slapstick,
- slapstick humor,
- squib,
- stretch,
- stretch the truth,
- stretching,
- subtle wit,
- superlative,
- take off,
- take off on,
- takeoff,
- talk big,
- talk in superlatives,
- tall talk,
- tout,
- touting,
- twist,
- understate,
- version,
- visual humor,
- warp,
- wicked imitation,
- wit,
- wrench