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Meaning of "caricatural" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CARICATURAL

caricatural  [ˌkærɪkəˈtjʊərəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CARICATURAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Caricatural is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CARICATURAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Caricature

A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way. In literature, a caricature is a description of a person using exaggeration of some characteristics and oversimplification of others. Caricatures can be insulting or complimentary and can serve a political purpose or be drawn solely for entertainment. Caricatures of politicians are commonly used in editorial cartoons, while caricatures of movie stars are often found in entertainment magazines. The term is derived from the Italian caricare—to charge or load. An early definition occurs in the English doctor Thomas Browne's Christian Morals, published posthumously in 1716. Expose not thy self by four-footed manners unto monstrous draughts, and Caricatura representations. with the footnote: When Men's faces are drawn with resemblance to some other Animals, the Italians call it, to be drawn in Caricatura Thus, the word "caricature" essentially means a "loaded portrait".

Definition of caricatural in the English dictionary

The definition of caricatural in the dictionary is resembling or having the qualities of a caricature or exaggerated representation of a person.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CARICATURAL


apertural
ˈæpəˌtjʊərəl
brachyural
ˌbrækɪˈjʊərəl
caesural
sɪˈzjʊərəl
dural
ˈdjʊərəl
epidural
ˌɛpɪˈdjʊərəl
epineural
ˌɛpɪˈnjʊərəl
extradural
ˌɛkstrəˈdjʊərəl
extramural
ˌɛkstrəˈmjʊərəl
fural
ˈfjʊərəl
intramural
ˌɪntrəˈmjʊərəl
mural
ˈmjʊərəl
myoneural
ˌmaɪəˈnjʊərəl
neural
ˈnjʊərəl
nonneural
ˌnɒnˈnjʊərəl
perineural
ˌpɛrɪˈnjʊərəl
photomural
ˌfəʊtəʊˈmjʊərəl
sensorineural
ˌsensərɪˈnjʊərəl
subdural
sʌbˈdjʊərəl
sural
ˈsjʊərəl
Ural
ˈjʊərəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CARICATURAL

caribe
Cariboo
Cariboo Mountains
caribou
Caribou Inuit
caricatura
caricature
caricaturist
CARICOM
caried
caries
CARIFTA
carillon
carillonist
carillonned
carillonneur
carillonning
carina

WORDS THAT END LIKE CARICATURAL

agricultural
architectural
cross-cultural
cultural
horticultural
infrastructural
intercultural
multicultural
natural
postural
prefectural
rural
scriptural
sculptural
sociocultural
structural
supernatural
textural
the supernatural
ultrastructural
unnatural

Synonyms and antonyms of caricatural in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «caricatural» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CARICATURAL

Find out the translation of caricatural to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of caricatural from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «caricatural» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

讽刺性漫画
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

caricatural
570 millions of speakers

English

caricatural
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

caricatural
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كاريكاتورية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

карикатурный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

caricatural
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

caricatural
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

caricaturale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Karikatur
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

karikaturistisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

風刺的な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

풍자 만화
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Caricatur
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

caricatural
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

caricatural
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कार्बोनिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

caricatural
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

caricaturale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

karykaturalne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

карикатурний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

caricatural
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

οι καρικατούρες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

karikaturale
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skrattretande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

caricatural
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of caricatural

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CARICATURAL»

The term «caricatural» is regularly used and occupies the 71.638 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CARICATURAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «caricatural» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «caricatural» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about caricatural

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CARICATURAL»

Discover the use of caricatural in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to caricatural and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Caricatural Representations of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, ...
This thesis is concerned with French caricatural representations of Louis- Napoleon Bonaparte in the period from his appearance on the political scene during the nascent Second Republic to the summer following the end of the Franco-Prussian ...
W. Jack Rhoden, 2011
2
Daumier and Exoticism: Satirizing the French and the Foreign
However, the context of presentation, such as in a caricatural journal, can influence the viewer to perceive the drawing in the oppositional spirit of satire. One may be more ready to laugh at a depiction of Louis-Philippe in La Caricature simply ...
Elizabeth C. Childs, 2004
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Making the News: Modernity & the Mass Press in ...
It becomes something more evocative of contemporary caricatural production, which was habitually rendered not by engraving's precise economy of etched lines and sharp cross-hatching, but by the limber fluidity and unruly improvisational ...
Dean De la Motte, Jeannene M. Przyblyski, 1999
4
Character and Satire in Post War Fiction
Caricatural imagery has therefore been significantly deployed by writers with racial and gender preoccupations. The novels of Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison are preoccupied with the deconstruction of racial stereotypes; the caricatural ...
Ian Gregson, 2008
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Caricature Unmasked: Irony, Authenticity, and Individualism ...
The earliest moments when physiognomic, caricatural signs are really notable in political prints occur in these times of disillusionment, when a hero has been examined and found wanting. This is true of Pul- teney in the Patriot Unmask'd, just ...
Amelia Faye Rauser, 2008
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Odd Man Out: Readings of the Work and Reputation of Edgar Degas
In short, the monotype base forms an important groundwork for both the effects of descriptive, caricatural sensation and those of semiotic indeterminacy found in the readings of specific casé-concert pictures, and in the general claims about the ...
Carol M. Armstrong, 2003
7
Critical Images: The Canonization of Don Quixote Through ...
... precisely because he might have glimpsed the madness in all minds, and the very creative power of that madness. In this image, Rara penitencia, the satirical heightening of folly, achieved through the caricatural reduction of the character to  ...
Rachel Schmidt, 1999
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Thinking Against the Grain: Essays on Morality, Education, ...
He distinguishes between what he calls "a caricatural version of negative freedom" that "sees freedom simply as the absence of external physical or legal obstacles", and what he calls "the modern notion of negative freedom which gives ...
Rodger Beehler, 2007
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New Trends for Innovation in the Mediterranean Animal Production
(Caricatural. and). contextual. iconography. In the distance, the dairy inspection vehicle speeds away in a cloud of dust. Nostalgically, Charles the goatherd begins thinking of the same track, recently repaired by the council in an attempt to  ...
R. Bouche, A. Derkimba, F. Casabianca, 2011
10
Baudelaire and the Aesthetics of Bad Faith
The. Caricatural. Mechanism. in. Baudelaire's. Poetry. Georges Blin gives a succinct explanation for what he perceives as the average reader's resistance to Sartre's Baudelaire: "It is a fact that despite its great mastery this study does not win ...
Susan Blood

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CARICATURAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term caricatural is used in the context of the following news items.
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Egyptian TV show may be at vanguard of attitude shift
The portrayal of Jews as more human and less caricatural has prompted some observers to conclude that “The Jewish Quarter” is as much an ... «Blouin News Blogs, Jul 15»
2
A Dangerous Dualism: The Myth of Two Algerias
Unsurprisingly, France is at the forefront of promoting caricatural visions that reveal both the persistence of the older colonial imaginary as well ... «Jadaliyya, Jun 15»
3
'The Overnight': An outrageous comedy of (ill) manners
“I'd been offered so many films where I was playing a caricatural Frenchwoman,” she said. “Charlotte is pretty caricatural, but [Mr. Brice] is ... «Washington Times, Jun 15»
4
Luna Gale, Hampstead Theatre, review: 'flimsy'
How they avoid wincing at its more caricatural aspects is a minor miracle. Gilman has done much better in the past. Let us hope – even pray ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
5
On His Birth Anniversary The Best Of Amrish Puri
Playing the comic book bad-guy Mogambo, Puri gave a new caricatural twist to celluloid villainy. Partly comic-bookish, partly like the typical ... «SKJ Bollywood News, Jun 15»
6
Unseen Waterloo shows the humanity behind the battle
... the wild staring eyes and tight, creased half-unbuttoned waistcoat in the famous picture of Baudelaire, the almost caricatural way in which the ... «Newsweek, Jun 15»
7
Courrier des lecteurs Le scandale total de la gestion du monde… et …
Permettez-moi donc d'être un peu caricatural : notre planète de 7 milliards d'humains, comporte au moins 3 milliards de personnes amaigries ... «Clicanoo, Jun 15»
8
From The International New York Times' Center stage: Teatro alla …
For the premiere of ''Turandot'' in May, the major challenge was the makeup for Ping, Pang and Pong, three quasi-caricatural figures with ... «euronews, Jun 15»
9
De l'autre côté du Lee, retour sur la carrière de Sir Christopher
Un personnage haut en couleur, moins caricatural et plus profond que Sherlock et auquel Sir Christopher apporte sa grandeur et sa présence ... «Rue89Lyon, Jun 15»
10
Jurassic World ou quand les promesses de demain auraient pu …
J'aimerais dire que les vraies vedettes de la saga, à savoir les dinosaures, évitent le sort caricatural réservé aux personnages humains, mais ... «TVQC, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Caricatural [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/caricatural>. May 2024 ».
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