caricature, n. 1. cartoon, portrait, sketch, drawing, representation, parody, spoof, farce, burlesque, takeoff; satire, lampoon, squib, pasquinade, travesty. -v. 2. mimic, imitate, ape, Inf. take off, Sl. make like; parody, satirize, lampoon, squib, burlesque, travesty; mock, ridicule, stultify, make fun of, laugh at.
carillon, n. bells, chimes, dingdong, tintinnabulation.
carnage, n. butchery, slaughter, wholesale or general slaughter, random or indiscriminate slaughter,
massacre, blood bath, effusion or fusillade of blood, Rare, internecion, Rare, trucidation; pogrom, mass-murder, mass-slaying, mass-execution, noyade; genocide, mass-destruction, annihilation, extermination, liquidation.
carnal, adj. 1. earthly, worldly, temporal, mun
dane, terrestrial; secular, profane, unspiritual, physical, corporeal.
2. sensual, voluptuous, fleshly, bodily; lustful,
lascivious, libidinous, lubricous, lecherous, Archaic. lickerish, Sl. horny; concupiscent, sexual, erotic, lewd, prurient, salacious; unchaste, impure, unclean, indecent, wanton, wayward, prodigal; animal, animalistic, bestial, brutish, crude, coarse, gross,
carnality, n. 1. worldliness, earthliness, temporal
ness, secularity, profaneness, unspirituality, corporeality.
2. sensuality, voluptuousness, fleshliness; lustfulness, lewdness, prurience, salaciousness, Sl. horniness; lust, lechery, concupiscence, Sl. hot pants, Sl. the hots; animality, bestiality, brutishness, coarseness, grossness.
carnival, n. 1. amusement show, circus, extrava
ganza; sideshow, freak show, puppet show; merry-go-round, carrousel, Ferris wheel.
2. merrymaking, revelry, reveling, revels; frolic, partying, party; revel, masquerade, masque, ball; festival, festivity, fete, fiesta, Mardi gras; celebration, jubilee, Inf. jamboree, gala; funmaking, jollification, conviviality, whoopee, Inf. goings on; carousal, orgy, bacchanalia, saturnalia, Sl. love-in.
carnivorous, adj. flesh-eating, carnivoral, zoopha-gous, omophagous, omnivorous, ichthyophagous; an-thropophagic, cannibalistic, man-eating; rapacious, predatory, predacious, raptorial,
carol, n. 1. song, tune, melody, chant, ditty; noel, spiritual, hymn, canticle, anthem.
-v. 2. sing, chant, lilt, melodize, chime in, Music. harmonize, Music, descant; warble, troll, trill, chirrup, chirp.
carousal, n. 1. drinking bout, brannigan, drunk, potation, compotation, bouse, guzzle, drunken carouse or revel, bacchanal, bacchanalia; cocktail party, happy hour; spree, fling, carouse, revel, romp, bout, wassail; All Sl. binge, bender, hellbender, bust, toot, tear, jag, bat, barhop, bar-crawl, Brit, pubcrawl; revelry, merrymaking, jollification, Inf. goings on; celebration, gala affair, wing-ding; orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, Scot. randy.
2. a. carrousel, merry-go-round, roundabout.
b. tournament, tourney, field day, gymkhana.
carouse, n. 1. drinking bout, brannigan, bouse, compotation; spree, fling, carousal, revel. See - carousal
(def1).
-v. 2. revel, wassail, roister, bouse, make merry, cut loose, let loose, Inf. live it up, Inf. party, Inf. step out, whoop it up, Sl. make whoopee; go on a spree, make the rounds, Sl. tie one on, Sl. go on a drunk or binge or bender or toot or tear or bat or jag, Sl. paint the town red, Sl. bar-hop, Sl. bar-crawl, Brit. Sl. pub-crawl; debauch, dissipate, wanton, sow wild oats, have one's fling; overindulge, overdo, burn the candle at both ends, not know when to stop, not know when one has had enough,
carp, v. complain, faultfind, cavil, SI. beef; quibble, wrangle, pull to pieces, SI. nitpick; nag, pick on or at, peck at, jibe at; criticize, find fault, belittle, deprecate, disparage, impugn, decry, SI. moan and groan; blame, chide, reproach, censure, rebuke, reprove, reprehend, sneer at, discredit, animadvert,
carpenter, n. woodworker, cabinetmaker, joiner, builder, hammerer,
carpet, n. rug, area rug, scatter rug, throw rug, mat, matting, runner; shag, Afghan, Oriental, Persian carpet or rug, Turkish rug or carpet,
carping, adj. faultfinding, nagging, caviling, captious; scoffing, impugning, Inf. picky; hard to please, hypercritical, critical, biting, bitter, cutting, belittling, deprecating; chiding, reproachful, censorious, disapprobatory, derogatory; reprehensive, condemnatory, denunciatory, objurgatory, animadversional.
carriage, n. 1. coach, stagecoach, chariot, phaeton, hansom, landau, brougham, surrey, cabriolet, coupe, victoria, barouche, four-wheeler, hackney, rockaway, U.S. buggy, Chiefly Brit, tallyho; sulky, gig, calash, curricle, chaise, tilbury, (in Japan, the Philippines, etc.) jinrikisha; wagon, cart, tumbrel, Chiefly Brit. trap; car, vehicle, conveyance.