Word.ws English Dictionary

caricaturish

caricaturish adjective: resembling a caricature.

Adjective

caricaturish (comparative more caricaturish, superlative most caricaturish)

  1. Resembling a caricature
    • The Bech books constitute a wryly caricaturish collective profile of Mr. Updike’s Jewish contemporaries[…].2009 January 28, Bruce Weber, “Updike’s Stories: Some Paths Traveled, Some Not Taken”, in New York Times

Forms of caricaturish

comparativemore caricaturish
superlativemost caricaturish

Origin of caricaturish

From caricature + -ish.

Questions about caricaturish

What does caricaturish mean?
Caricaturish means resembling a caricature.
What part of speech is caricaturish?
Caricaturish is an adjective.

Words near caricaturish in the dictionary

  1. caricaturisation
  2. caricaturisations
  3. caricaturise
  4. caricaturised
  5. caricaturises
  6. caricaturish
  7. caricaturising
  8. caricaturist
  9. caricaturistic
  10. caricaturists
  11. caricaturization

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: caricaturish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “caricaturish.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/caricaturish. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.