caricatureとは意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• caricatura (古風な用法)

語源

From French caricature, from Italian caricatura.

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛɹɪkət͡ʃʊɚ/, /ˈkɛɹɪkət͡ʃɚ/, (まれに) /kəˈɹɪkət͡ʃʊɚ/, (also まれに) /kəˈɹɪkət͡ʃɚ/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹɪkətʃʊə/, /ˈkæɹɪkətʃə/

名詞

caricature (複数形 caricatures)

1. A pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect.
   • 2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     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.

2. A grotesque misrepresentation.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 3, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:

     A grotesque caricature of virtue.

   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎^[2]:

     Anything more appalling than this jumbled mass of the remains of a departed race I cannot imagine, and what made it even more dreadful was that in this dry air a considerable number of the bodies had simply become desiccated with the skin still on them, and now, fixed in every conceivable position, stared at us out of the mountain of white bones, grotesquely horrible caricatures of humanity.

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

派生語

• anticaricature
• caricaturise (まれに), caricaturisation, caricaturish

形容詞

caricature (not comparable)

1. Having the characteristics of a caricature, grotesque.
   • 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 2, pages 274-275:

     That singularly foolish old lady, her grandmother, got up a sort of caricature conspiracy, and Miss Churchill was to have been married to a coxcombical Jacobite, of the name of Trevanion; but he was arrested in the church, though he has since escaped by means of the jailor's daughter.

動詞

caricature (三人称単数 現在形 caricatures, 現在分詞 caricaturing, 過去形および過去分詞形 caricatured)

1. To represent someone in an exaggerated or distorted manner.
   • 1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, volume 1, page 180:

     Their faults grew suddenly perceptible, and their absurdities an unfailing subject of mimicry. All these, in his hands, became singularly amusing. Francesca, who had little knowledge, and no envy, of the individuals so relentlessly caricatured, could not help being entertained.

派生語

• caricaturist