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单词 caricature
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Definition of caricature in English:

caricature

noun ˈkarɪkətjʊəˈkarɪkətʃɔː
  • 1A picture, description, or imitation of a person in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect.

    漫画;夸张的描述(或模仿)

    a crude caricature of the Prime Minister
    mass noun there are elements of caricature in the portrayal of the hero

    在对该英雄的描述中含有夸张的成分。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Memin is a cartoon character from a decades-old and much-beloved Mexican comic book, a caricature of a young, black Mexican boy.
    • He plays the role well without every going over the top or becoming a caricature, and is creates an extremely sympathetic character.
    • The expressions of the actors are extremely vigorous and exaggerated - close to caricatures.
    • When Sinclair Lewis wrote Babbitt, he succeeded in creating a caricature of success typifying the mind-set of the twenties.
    • One of the four pictures was an old-fashioned caricature of a bomb - round and black with a burning fuse.
    • Galluccio has created some memorable caricatures, particularly among the older generation.
    • In 1803 Gillray created a prototype caricature of Napoleon which was widely copied by his competitors.
    • While there is certainly an element of caricature in Geikie's works they are never caricatures per se.
    • Each of the players, including Watts, will also receive a framed picture featuring caricatures of their squad.
    • Moving on from his Hogarthian images of the early 1990s, the elements of caricature have disappeared, although he remains preoccupied with brutalisation.
    • He would sit sometimes in the woods from morning until late afternoon, scraping away at fallen branches, creating crude animal caricatures of all shapes and sizes.
    • Over the decades, many artists and cartoonists have created wicked caricatures of the smug and powerful.
    • The aim is to avoid the straw man fallacy - rejecting positions not on the basis of their true characteristics but on the basis of crude or otherwise erroneous caricatures of them.
    • I mean look at cave art, these are all very exaggerated caricatures of bison with teeny, weeny heads, huge humps, they don't look like real bison.
    • Glover, who has a penchant for playing strange individuals, uses this opportunity not to inhabit a genuine character, but to create a caricature.
    • More than 800 drawings, illustrations, caricatures and paintings by Beshkov have been arranged on the first three floors of the gallery offering a glance at the life and work of this prominent Bulgarian.
    • His characteristic caricatures of women and other subjects are all woven into a tapestry of intricate design and fused colors.
    • The element of cartoonish caricature finds its way into much of this production.
    • Usually I find him insufferable, but here he had a quieter, naïve quality that made him more real, rather than a caricature or mere comic foil.
    • The images are obviously caricatures rather than drawings from life, and the characters' words are likewise not to be mistaken for those of the actual historical actors.
    Synonyms
    cartoon, distorted/exaggerated drawing, distortion
    parody, satire, lampoon, burlesque, mimicry, travesty, farce, skit, squib
    informal send-up, take-off, spoof
    rare pasquinade
    1. 1.1 A ludicrous or grotesque version of someone or something.
      (人或物的)可笑(或怪诞)样式
      he looked a caricature of his normal self

      他看上去和平时不一样,挺可笑的。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • On stage, I am a caricature of my normal personality which probably doesn't bode well.
      • One remarkable characteristic of this work is that the author does not reduce his subjects to ludicrous caricatures.
      • He feels compelled to present the most ludicrous caricatures of modern science.
      • This is the Cornwall of myth, a clichéd caricature version of the county complete with exaggerated eccentrics, loony local lore and mystical happenings.
      • Has some modernist thinker sat in a college, chuckling as he invents this ludicrous caricature in order to discredit postmodernism once and for all?
      • ‘It's just fun, almost a caricature version of rockabilly,’ adds the Gutter Demon's bassist Flipper.
verb ˈkarɪkətjʊəˈkarɪkətʃɔː
[with object]
  • Make or give a caricature of.

    he was famous enough to be caricatured by Private Eye

    他很出名,连《笨拙周报》都为他画漫画。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He is frequently caricatured as a frosty pop intellectual, dry and aloof and uptight.
    • The burgled British householder used to be caricatured coming down his stairway with poker in hand, while the burglar was cartooned as holding nothing more than a jemmy.
    • Her more nuanced views are frequently caricatured.
    • By his own admission, he's been caricatured by his peers as ‘egocentric, dominating, and untalented’.
    • The style and drafting of the Constitution also are unfairly caricatured.
    • For too long, he was caricatured as the playboy with the pun-friendly surname, an image to which he pandered happily until he realised its downside.
    • He has been caricatured, as a man more interested in country and western music than opera, and it is true that he has a formidable expertise in the area of popular music.
    • It was then that cartoonists began caricaturing him as a cockatoo.
    • Another tale has it that several co-workers are furious at my caricaturing them on one post.
    • The first can easily be caricatured as bull-headed aggression: the second as social work masquerading as security.
    • And… I think he's caricaturing the left.
    • An enterprise economy is not, as caricatured by statist propaganda, a devil-take-the-hindmost free-for-all.
    • Never one to shy away from polemics, Gould was often criticized by other scientists for his penchant for staking debates in rather extreme terms, and sometimes caricaturing his opponents' positions.
    • Essentially he was caricaturing the age of the machine, and the self-importance of some of the people caught up in that age - creating complex inventions that achieved absurdly simple results, while the audience looked on solemnly.
    • Many other sketches featured similar hard-men, many of them caricaturing the sort of psychopathic gangsters who would become prevalent in British films of the late 1990s.
    • He had been caricatured for his right-wing geopolitical and social policies his entire career.
    • Their activities could be caricatured as ‘do-gooding’, which is irrelevant to the real business objective of making a profit.
    • What amazes and pleases me is that the organisation listened to this complaint in a spirit of actual intellectual engagement, rather than just ignoring or caricaturing their critics.
    • From 1903 Wells devoted much of his energy to the Fabian movement but after falling out with their leaders savagely caricatured them in his novel, The New Machiavelli.
    • Each side caricatured the other in this way - and continues to do so.
    Synonyms
    parody, satirize, lampoon, mimic, ridicule, mock, make fun of, burlesque
    distort, exaggerate
    informal send up, take off

Derivatives

  • caricatural

  • adjective ˈkarɪkətʃʊərəlˈkɛrəkətʃ(ə)rəl
    • They were controversial because of their caricatural style, and all except Maternity and The Rich Banquet while the Workers Quarrel were subsequently destroyed or altered.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A well-known figure in Viennese society, St. Genois is appareled in the obligatory black tie and flanked by two modern ‘women,’ each rendered in slightly different, caricatural modes.
      • Full of allusions and caricatural aspects, the piece is difficult and challenging, but its rich and luscious orchestration more than makes up for its complexities.
      • It's likely that Orwell saw him as a true continuation of the violent, caricatural, humorous art found in English nineteenth-century writers.
      • I have never seen farce more keenly orchestrated and sanguinely enacted, the blatantly laughable always tinged with the bitingly caricatural, the fantastic, and the outrageous, without the slightest loss in basic humanity.
  • caricaturist

  • nounˈkarɪkətʃʊərɪstˈkɛrəkəˌtʃʊ(ə)rəst
    • I think he's a brilliant cartoonist, a spot-on caricaturist, an excellent letterer and a very fine writer-of-comics.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The competition is open to all amateur artists, designers, cartoonists, doodlers and caricaturists.
      • A caricaturist and political cartoonist of exceptional savagery, Scarfe's work is diverse, prolific, and visually stunning as well as being controversial.
      • The award-winning cartoonist and caricaturist, Shankar, would have become a motor mechanic, had he followed the advice of his father.
      • Guests can enjoy a fashion show, a selection of live music and dancing, and then turn their attention towards juggling, Asian comedy and caricaturists.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from French, from Italian caricatura, from caricare 'load, exaggerate', from Latin carricare (see charge).

Definition of caricature in US English:

caricature

noun
  • 1A picture, description, or imitation of a person in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect.

    漫画;夸张的描述(或模仿)

    there are elements of caricature in the portrayal of the hero

    在对该英雄的描述中含有夸张的成分。

    a caricature of Jimmy Durante
    Example sentencesExamples
    • While there is certainly an element of caricature in Geikie's works they are never caricatures per se.
    • He plays the role well without every going over the top or becoming a caricature, and is creates an extremely sympathetic character.
    • I mean look at cave art, these are all very exaggerated caricatures of bison with teeny, weeny heads, huge humps, they don't look like real bison.
    • The element of cartoonish caricature finds its way into much of this production.
    • He would sit sometimes in the woods from morning until late afternoon, scraping away at fallen branches, creating crude animal caricatures of all shapes and sizes.
    • Usually I find him insufferable, but here he had a quieter, naïve quality that made him more real, rather than a caricature or mere comic foil.
    • Glover, who has a penchant for playing strange individuals, uses this opportunity not to inhabit a genuine character, but to create a caricature.
    • The aim is to avoid the straw man fallacy - rejecting positions not on the basis of their true characteristics but on the basis of crude or otherwise erroneous caricatures of them.
    • Memin is a cartoon character from a decades-old and much-beloved Mexican comic book, a caricature of a young, black Mexican boy.
    • Moving on from his Hogarthian images of the early 1990s, the elements of caricature have disappeared, although he remains preoccupied with brutalisation.
    • One of the four pictures was an old-fashioned caricature of a bomb - round and black with a burning fuse.
    • Galluccio has created some memorable caricatures, particularly among the older generation.
    • In 1803 Gillray created a prototype caricature of Napoleon which was widely copied by his competitors.
    • His characteristic caricatures of women and other subjects are all woven into a tapestry of intricate design and fused colors.
    • The images are obviously caricatures rather than drawings from life, and the characters' words are likewise not to be mistaken for those of the actual historical actors.
    • The expressions of the actors are extremely vigorous and exaggerated - close to caricatures.
    • Over the decades, many artists and cartoonists have created wicked caricatures of the smug and powerful.
    • When Sinclair Lewis wrote Babbitt, he succeeded in creating a caricature of success typifying the mind-set of the twenties.
    • Each of the players, including Watts, will also receive a framed picture featuring caricatures of their squad.
    • More than 800 drawings, illustrations, caricatures and paintings by Beshkov have been arranged on the first three floors of the gallery offering a glance at the life and work of this prominent Bulgarian.
    Synonyms
    cartoon, distorted drawing, exaggerated drawing, distortion
    1. 1.1 A ludicrous or grotesque version of someone or something.
      (人或物的)可笑(或怪诞)样式
      he looked like a caricature of his normal self

      他看上去和平时不一样,挺可笑的。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Has some modernist thinker sat in a college, chuckling as he invents this ludicrous caricature in order to discredit postmodernism once and for all?
      • He feels compelled to present the most ludicrous caricatures of modern science.
      • ‘It's just fun, almost a caricature version of rockabilly,’ adds the Gutter Demon's bassist Flipper.
      • On stage, I am a caricature of my normal personality which probably doesn't bode well.
      • One remarkable characteristic of this work is that the author does not reduce his subjects to ludicrous caricatures.
      • This is the Cornwall of myth, a clichéd caricature version of the county complete with exaggerated eccentrics, loony local lore and mystical happenings.
verb
[with object]
  • Make or give a comically or grotesquely exaggerated representation of (someone or something)

    对(某人)予以滑稽(或荒诞)的夸张表现,用漫画表现

    he was caricatured on the cover of TV Guide
    a play that caricatures the legal profession
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The style and drafting of the Constitution also are unfairly caricatured.
    • An enterprise economy is not, as caricatured by statist propaganda, a devil-take-the-hindmost free-for-all.
    • Another tale has it that several co-workers are furious at my caricaturing them on one post.
    • He has been caricatured, as a man more interested in country and western music than opera, and it is true that he has a formidable expertise in the area of popular music.
    • And… I think he's caricaturing the left.
    • Many other sketches featured similar hard-men, many of them caricaturing the sort of psychopathic gangsters who would become prevalent in British films of the late 1990s.
    • The first can easily be caricatured as bull-headed aggression: the second as social work masquerading as security.
    • Essentially he was caricaturing the age of the machine, and the self-importance of some of the people caught up in that age - creating complex inventions that achieved absurdly simple results, while the audience looked on solemnly.
    • From 1903 Wells devoted much of his energy to the Fabian movement but after falling out with their leaders savagely caricatured them in his novel, The New Machiavelli.
    • Each side caricatured the other in this way - and continues to do so.
    • By his own admission, he's been caricatured by his peers as ‘egocentric, dominating, and untalented’.
    • He had been caricatured for his right-wing geopolitical and social policies his entire career.
    • It was then that cartoonists began caricaturing him as a cockatoo.
    • He is frequently caricatured as a frosty pop intellectual, dry and aloof and uptight.
    • Their activities could be caricatured as ‘do-gooding’, which is irrelevant to the real business objective of making a profit.
    • The burgled British householder used to be caricatured coming down his stairway with poker in hand, while the burglar was cartooned as holding nothing more than a jemmy.
    • For too long, he was caricatured as the playboy with the pun-friendly surname, an image to which he pandered happily until he realised its downside.
    • Her more nuanced views are frequently caricatured.
    • What amazes and pleases me is that the organisation listened to this complaint in a spirit of actual intellectual engagement, rather than just ignoring or caricaturing their critics.
    • Never one to shy away from polemics, Gould was often criticized by other scientists for his penchant for staking debates in rather extreme terms, and sometimes caricaturing his opponents' positions.
    Synonyms
    parody, satirize, lampoon, mimic, ridicule, mock, make fun of, burlesque

Origin

Mid 18th century: from French, from Italian caricatura, from caricare ‘load, exaggerate’, from Latin carricare (see charge).

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