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Plural of caricature

regular plural

The plural of caricature is caricatures.

Forms of caricature

Singularcaricature /ˈkɛɹɪkət͡ʃʊɚ/
Pluralcaricatures
Countablecountable

Caricatures in a sentence

  • Men In Black 3 lacks the novelty of the first film, and its take on the late ’60s feels an awful lot like a psychedelic dress-up party, all broad caricatures and groovy vibes.2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club
  • God can't be found in unsanctified imaginations or in the caricatures of pop culture.2007, Ellen Santilli Vaughn, Time Peace: Living Here and Now with a Timeless God. From the entry Man Upstairs
  • There is no weapon so effective as mockery and Gillray's vicious caricatures did more to demythologise Napoleon than anything else.2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 273. From the entry demythologise
  • Aristophanes caricatures it in Peace (1 ff.) by sending his hero up on the back of a dungbeetle.2012 April 24, Robert Graves, The Greek Myths: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry eagleback
  • Almost human in appearance, yet not quite, the characters in 3-D computer animations are more disturbing than overt caricatures.2007, Jonathon Keats, Control + Alt + Delete: A Dictionary of Cyberslang. From the entry uncanny valley

Meaning of caricature

  1. noun A pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect.
  2. noun A grotesque misrepresentation.
  3. noun In facial recognition systems, a face that has been modified to look less like the average face, and thus more distinctive.

Full definition of caricature

Questions about the plural of caricature

What is the plural of caricature?
The plural of caricature is caricatures.
Is caricature countable?
Caricature is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: caricature (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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