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caricatural

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.07 in modern English

Syllables
car-i-cat-u-ral
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having the character of a caricature.

Example Sentences

Etymology

Etymology tree English caricature Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English caricatural From caricature + -al.

Inflected Forms

more caricatural (comparative) most caricatural (superlative)

Derived Forms

caricaturally

Rhymes With

rural neural plural mural epidural intramural ural pleural subdural dural extramural sensorineural

Questions

What does caricatural mean?
Having the character of a caricature.
Where does caricatural come from?
Etymology tree English caricature Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English caricatural From caricature + -al.

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