Caricature meaning

Noun: caricature

Pronunciation: (‘ka-ri-ku,tyur)

Caricature meaning:

• A drawing that makes someone look funny or foolish because some part of the person’s appearance is exaggerated;A representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect.
• Someone or something that’s very exaggerated in a funny or foolish way.

Synonyms: imitation, impersonation, mock

Quotations: Ernest Hemingway  – When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Bob Beatty – Those other states are not as easy to caricature. They pick Kansas to represent the bumpkin.

Aldous Huxley – Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

Sample sentences:

• An artist was doing caricatures in the garden.
• Their  performance in the film was a caricature of a hard-boiled spy.
• The drawing caricatured the Prime Minister.
• That caricature made me laugh for hours together.