CARICATURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does caricature mean? 

• CARICATURE (noun)
  The noun CARICATURE has 1 sense:

1. a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect

  Familiarity information: CARICATURE used as a noun is very rare.

• CARICATURE (verb)
  The verb CARICATURE has 1 sense:

1. represent in or produce a caricature of

  Familiarity information: CARICATURE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARICATURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

caricature; imitation; impersonation

Hypernyms ("caricature" is a kind of...):

humor; humour; wit; witticism; wittiness (a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "caricature"):

mock-heroic (a satirical imitation of heroic verse)

burlesque; lampoon; mockery; parody; pasquinade; put-on; send-up; sendup; spoof; takeoff; travesty (a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way)

Derivation:

caricature (represent in or produce a caricature of)

caricaturist (someone who parodies in an exaggerated manner)

• CARICATURE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they caricature    ... he / she / it caricatures   
Past simple: caricatured   
Past participle: caricatured   
-ing form: caricaturing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Represent in or produce a caricature of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

ape; caricature

Context example:

The drawing caricatured the President

Hypernyms (to "caricature" is one way to...):

mock (imitate with mockery and derision)

Sentence frames:

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Derivation:

caricature (a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect)

 Context examples 

It was like some strange caricature of the dapper James Wilder whom we had seen the night before.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a deep, aggressive loathing of which you may even now form some conception if you examine the papers or caricatures of the day.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But Mrs. John Dashwood was a strong caricature of himself;—more narrow-minded and selfish.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

In her rambling and her idleness she might only be a caricature of herself; but in her silence and sadness she was the very reverse of all that she had been before.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He was a tall, gaunt man of sixty, with clear-cut features and a small goatee beard which gave him a general resemblance to the caricatures of Uncle Sam. A half-smoked, sodden cigar hung from the corner of his mouth, and as he sat down he struck a match and relit it.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Martin glanced at her and verified her statement in her general slovenly appearance, in the unhealthy fat, in the drooping shoulders, the tired face with the sagging lines, and in the heavy fall of her feet, without elasticity—a very caricature of the walk that belongs to a free and happy body.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Little Raphael, as her sisters called her, had a decided talent for drawing, and was never so happy as when copying flowers, designing fairies, or illustrating stories with queer specimens of art. Her teachers complained that instead of doing her sums she covered her slate with animals, the blank pages of her atlas were used to copy maps on, and caricatures of the most ludicrous description came fluttering out of all her books at unlucky moments.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This much-enduring man had succeeded in banishing chewing gum after a long and stormy war, had made a bonfire of the confiscated novels and newspapers, had suppressed a private post office, had forbidden distortions of the face, nicknames, and caricatures, and done all that one man could do to keep half a hundred rebellious girls in order.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)