cartoon

noun, often attributive

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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 The labels stood out too, featuring busy cartoon renderings of Wallace and Richardson battling a leopard or being pursued by a Sasquatch. — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Sep. 2021 Eventually Stipp—who is 15 years old and will soon be starting his sophomore year of high school—sold his artwork, a digital illustration of a waving, astronaut-like cartoon figure, for 20ETH. — Raisa Bruner, Time, 7 Sep. 2021 Others used the attachment upload feature to paste in the script from the 2007 cartoon Bee Movie or pornographic images. — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 7 Sep. 2021 Their cartoon features are arranged in just such a way as to look cute and expressive without becoming unintentionally off-putting in the process. — Reid Mccarter, Wired, 4 Sep. 2021 Lyle Vincent’s cinematography leans into the cartoon aesthetics. — Amy Nicholson, Variety, 3 Sep. 2021 For a generation of young minds tuned to ABC on Saturday mornings in the '70s, the cartoon series Schoolhouse Rock was the quintessential spoonful of sugar to help the medicine of public education go down. — Ron Hart, Billboard, 2 Sep. 2021 While Transformers was built from two Japanese toy lines, that of Diaclone and Microman, it was given a more coherent form when the original 1984 cartoon started airing. — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021 Bulgari is bringing the Disney cartoon to one of its most iconic formats—the chunky, round Gérald Genta Arena case. — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 30 Aug. 2021

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