Travesty
['trævɪstɪ] or ['trævəsti]
Definition
(a.) Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; -- applied to a book or shorter composition.
(n.) A burlesque translation or imitation of a work.
(v. t.) To translate, imitate, or represent, so as to render ridiculous or ludicrous.
Checked by Carlton
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Parody, imitate, take off, turn into burlesque.
n. Parody, burlesque, caricature.
Editor: Sheldon
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Burlesque, parody, disguise, caricature, misrepresentation, misportraiture
ANT:Representation, reproduction, portraiture, copy, exhibition, recast
Editor: Ryan
Definition
adj. having on the vesture or appearance of another: disguised so as to be ridiculous.—n. a kind of burlesque in which the original characters are preserved the situations parodied.—v.t. to turn into burlesque.
Typed by Geraldine
Examples
- That word quoted from Mrs. Cadwallader seemed like a mocking travesty wrought in the dark by an impish finger. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was a travesty to look and to comprehend the man there. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Yet he subordinated himself to the common idea, travestied himself. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Edited by Alta