caricature

Main Entry:
caricature [kar-i-kuh-cher, -choor]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: exaggerated description in writing, drawing
Synonyms: burlesque, cartoon, distortion, farce, imitation, lampoon, libel, mimicry, mockery, parody, pasquinade, pastiche, put-on, ridicule, satire, send-up, sham, takeoff, travesty
Main Entry: burlesque
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bawdy show; vaudeville
Synonyms: burly, caricature, farce, lampoon, lampoonery, mock, mockery, parody, pastiche, peep show, revue, satire, send-up, spoof, strip, takeoff, travesty, vaudeville
Main Entry: cartoon
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: funny drawing, often with dialogue or caption
Synonyms: animation, caricature, comic strip, drawing, lampoon, parody, representation, satire, sketch, takeoff
Main Entry: draw
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: create a likeness in a picture
Synonyms: caricature, chart, compose, crayon, delineate, depict, describe, design, draft, engrave, etch, express, form, formulate, frame, graph, limn, map out, mark, model, outline, paint, pencil, portray, prepare, profile, sketch, trace, write
Main Entry: exaggerate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: overstate, embellish
Synonyms: amplify, blow out of proportion, boast, boost, brag, build up, caricature, color, cook up, corrupt, distort, embroider, emphasize, enlarge, exalt, expand, fabricate, falsify, fudge, go to extremes, heighten, hike, hyperbolize, inflate, intensify, lay it on thick, lie, loud talk, magnify, make too much of, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, overdo, overdraw, overemphasize, overestimate, pad, pretty up, puff, put on, pyramid, romance, romanticize, scam, stretch, up*
Antonyms: depreciate, minimize, play down, reduce, understate
Main Entry: exaggeration
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: overstatement, embellishment
Synonyms: aggrandizement, amplification, baloney, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, exaltation, excess, extravagance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story, flight of fancy, hogwash, hyperbole, inflation, jazz, line*, magnification, misjudgment, misrepresentation, overemphasis, overestimation, pretension, pretentiousness, rant, romance, stretch, tall story, untruth, whopper, yarn
Antonyms: minimization, reduction, understatement, unembellishment
Main Entry: extravaganza
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: spectacle
Synonyms: caricature, display, divertissement, flight of fancy, pageant, parody, show, spectacular
Main Entry: farce
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: nonsense, satire
Synonyms: absurdity, broad comedy, buffoonery, burlesque, camp, caricature, comedy, high camp, horseplay, interlude, joke, low camp, mock, mockery, parody, play, pratfall comedy, ridiculousness, sham*, skit, slapstick, travesty
Antonyms: sobriety, tragedy
Main Entry: imitate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: pretend to be; do an impression of
Synonyms: Xerox, act like, affect, ape, assume, be like, borrow, burlesque, carbon, caricature, clone, copy, counterfeit, ditto*, do like, do likewise, duplicate, echo, emulate, falsify, feign, follow, follow in footsteps, follow suit, forge, impersonate, look like, match, mime, mimic, mirror, mock, model after, parallel, parody, pattern after, personate, play a part, pretend, put on*, reduplicate, reflect, repeat, replicate, reproduce, resemble, send up, sham, simulate, spoof, take off, travesty
Notes: emulate means to strive to equal, excel, or match by imitating; imitate means to reproduce or copy someone's behavior or looks
Antonyms: be original, clash, differ, oppose, reverse
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