cartoon

noun, often attributive

car·toon | \ kär-ˈtün

Definition of cartoon

1 : a preparatory design, drawing, or painting (as for a fresco)

2a : a drawing intended as satire, caricature, or humor a political cartoon

b : comic strip

3 : animated cartoon

4 : a ludicrously simplistic, unrealistic, or one-dimensional portrayal or version the film's villain is an entertaining cartoon

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Other Words from cartoon

cartoon verb

cartooning \ kär-ˈtü-niŋ

\ noun

cartoonish \ kär-ˈtü-nish

\ adjective

cartoonishly adverb

cartoonist \ kär-ˈtü-nist

\ noun

cartoonlike \ kär-ˈtün-ˌlīk

\ adjective

cartoony \ kär-ˈtü-nē

\ adjective

Examples of cartoon in a Sentence

She enjoys reading the cartoons in the Sunday paper. The kids are watching cartoons.

Recent Examples on the Web

Stream full episodes of the classic caper cartoon on Boomerang. — Michelle Krupa, CNN, "Start your Monday smart: Congress, Apple, 9/11, Felicity Huffman, US Open, NFL," 8 Sep. 2019 But those drawbacks are somewhat compensated for by a series of arresting set-pieces, each one taking us to a spectacular Far East location not yet visited by this kind of high-powered Hollywood cartoon. — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, "'Abominable': Film Review | TIFF 2019," 7 Sep. 2019 Tipirneni has also produced a series of cartoons explaining the science behind Morphic. — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, "Executive draws on his career experience (literally, for cartoons)," 28 Aug. 2019 Guests will enter the El Capitoon Theater for the premiere of the newest Minnie and Mickey cartoon. — Scott Craven, azcentral, "From Epcot's update to a Spider-Man ride, everything Disney revealed about its parks at D23," 26 Aug. 2019 This resemblance was entirely unintentional, but given that association, the Edmonton Journal apologizes for the publication of the cartoon. — Sam Sokol, sun-sentinel.com, "Canadian paper apologizes after running cartoon seen as anti-Semitic," 14 Aug. 2019 These queries are the ones circling pop music’s freshest new face, Peppa Pig, the eponymous star of the educational cartoon that’s aimed at toddlers and preschoolers, produced by the TV and film company Entertainment One. — Alex Abad-santos, Vox, "How Peppa Pig became an LGBTQ icon," 29 July 2019 Andy Paley, a composer and songwriter who’s worked with Beach Boys, Phil Spector and Madonna, got a taste of cartoons as the songwriter for The Ren & Stimpy Show in 1993. — Bianca Gracie, Billboard, "'SpongeBob SquarePants' Voice Actor Tom Kenny, Songwriter Andy Paley & More Reflect on 20 Years of Laughter & Music," 23 July 2019 Brownstone Productions are working together on an adult reboot of the classic primetime cartoon The Flintstones. — Christian Holub, EW.com, "An adult reboot of The Flintstones is in the works," 11 July 2019

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