Word Meanings - CARICATURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: CARICATURE

1. An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture. 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. The truest likeness of the prince of French literature will be the one that has most of the look of a caricature. I. Taylor. A grotesque caricature of virtue. Macaulay.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CARICATURE)

• Burlesque
• Parody
• travesty
• satire
• caricature
• grotesque
• droll
• farcical
• comic
• ludicrous
• Perversion
• Abuse
• misrepresentation
• distortion
• corruption
• misinterpretation
• sophistry
• Ridicule
• Derision
• banter
• raillery
• burlesque
• mockery
• irony
• sarcasm
• jeer
• sneer
• cachinnation
• disrespect
• Travesty
• parody
• disguise
• misportraiture

Related words: (words related to CARICATURE)

• SARCASM
  A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest. The sarcasms of those critics who imagine our art to be a matter of inspiration. Sir J. Reynolds. Syn. -- Satire;
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• RIDICULER
  One who ridicules.
• COMICAL
  1. Relating to comedy. They deny it to be tragical because its catastrphe is a wedding, which hath ever been accounted comical. Gay. 2. Exciting mirth; droll; laughable; as, a comical story. "Comical adventures." Dryden. Syn. -- Humorous;
• DROLLIST
  A droll. Glanvill.
• DROLLISH
  Somewhat droll. Sterne.
• SARCASMOUS
  Sarcastic. "Sarcasmous scandal." Hubidras.
• TRAVESTY
  Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; -- applied to a book or shorter composition. (more info) travesty, It. travestire, fr. L. trans across, over + vestire to
• SNEER
  1. To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression. 2. To inssinuate contempt by a covert expression; to speak derisively. I could be content to be a little sneared at. Pope. 3. To show mirth awkwardly. Tatler. Syn.
• CORRUPTION
  1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject
• DISRESPECT
  Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy. Impatience of bearing the least affront or disrespect. Pope.
• DROLL
  Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange. Syn. -- Comic; comical; farcical; diverting; humorous; ridiculous; queer; odd; waggish; facetious; merry; laughable; ludicrous. -- Droll, Laughable, Comical.
• SATIRE
  a dish filled with various kinds of fruits, food composed of various ingredients, a mixture, a medley, fr. satur full of food, sated, fr. sat, satis, enough: cf. F. satire. See Sate, Sad, a., and 1. A composition, generally poetical, holding up
• COMICRY
  The power of exciting mirth; comicalness. H. Giles.
• PERVERSION
  The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted; a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or object; a change to something worse; a turning or applying to a wrong end or use. "Violations and perversions of the laws."
• DISGUISEMENT
  Disguise. Spenser.
• BANTER
  1. To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity. Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered
• BANTERER
  One who banters or rallies.
• SNEERINGLY
  In a sneering manner.
• INCORRUPTION
  The condition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. 1 Cor. xv.
• GEROCOMICAL
  Pertaining to gerocomy. Dr. John Smith.