caricatura
Syllables: car·i·ca·tur·a
caricatura is the archaic form of caricature.
Meaning of caricature
Noun
caricature (plural caricatures)
- A pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect.
- Lo Ching-chong (羅慶忠), better known as L.C.C., showed off a caricature of Lu he did in 2001. In the black-and-white drawing, Lu sports a bird's nest-like hairdo, with a bird perched in it.2006 March 7, Shu-ling Ko, “Cartoonists decry the lack of interest in their talents”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Dec 2006, Taiwan News, page 3
- A grotesque misrepresentation.
- A grotesque caricature of virtue.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and...
- In facial recognition systems, a face that has been modified to look less like the average face, and thus more distinctive.
Forms of caricatura
| plural | caricaturas |
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Words that rhyme with caricatura
Questions about caricatura
- What is caricatura the archaic form of?
- Caricatura is the archaic form of caricature.
Words near caricatura in the dictionary
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