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caricatura

Syllables: car·i·ca·tur·a

caricatura is the archaic form of caricature.

Meaning of caricature

Noun

caricature (plural caricatures)

  1. 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
  2. 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...
  3. In facial recognition systems, a face that has been modified to look less like the average face, and thus more distinctive.

See all 5 meanings of caricature

Forms of caricatura

pluralcaricaturas

Words that rhyme with caricatura

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Questions about caricatura

What is caricatura the archaic form of?
Caricatura is the archaic form of caricature.

Words near caricatura in the dictionary

  1. caribouskin
  2. caribouskins
  3. Caribs
  4. caricaceous
  5. Carical
  6. caricatura
  7. caricaturable
  8. caricatural
  9. caricaturally
  10. caricaturas
  11. caricature

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