CARTOONS Synonyms: 64 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of cartoon

as in drawings

a picture using lines to represent the chief features of an object or scene a political cartoon mocking the state legislature

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as in strips

a series of drawings that tell a story or part of a story reading the cartoons in the Sunday newspaper

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as in parodies

a poor, insincere, or insulting imitation of something in this biopic the life of a complex man is reduced to a cartoon

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cartoons

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verb

present tense third-person singular of cartoon

as in caricatures

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Recent Examples of cartoons

Noun

The show was in some ways an antidote to the world of Saturday morning cartoons. — Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2026 At the same time, on a remote mountain in New Zealand, a little girl was running similar experiments, sublimating the language of cartoons into a supple personal vernacular. — Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026 In Coyote vs Acme, I was left wondering how people regularly interact with cartoons on an emotional level, rather than just professionally. — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026 Among the changes were an end to the use of wire stories and publication of cartoons. — Brieanna J. Frank, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026 But Cullen is best known for his work in animation and children’s cartoons in the 1980s and ‘90s. — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026 The store sells a variety of plushies, accessories, blind box collectibles, and cosmetics branded with characters from popular cartoons, video games, and toy franchises. — Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 19 Aug. 2026 Joseph Joseph may work full-time as a senior project manager, but the 33-year-old’s true passions are all things comics, cartoons and anime. — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 19 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for cartoons

Noun

Wednesday and Tuesdays major money lottery drawings dropped jackpot winnings all over Miami-Dade, including two hits in one place.

— David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2026
Rather than presenting Zumthor’s work through drawings or conventional architectural documentation, Wenders trains his camera on the people who encounter, inhabit and build these spaces, letting the buildings unfold from the inside.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of drawings

Noun

The downside is that not all wooden magnetic strips are created equal.

— Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026
Prior research had shown that cotton strips could also be used to assess decomposition, so why not engage in a bit of citizen science and ask volunteers to bury cotton underpants for a couple of months, then dig them up and record the results?

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of strips

Verb

Petrarch pictures the ghosts of Homer and Ennius together, and Homer’s ghost points out to Ennius a solitary figure, Francescus, working on a great epic poem, Africa.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026
And Trey pictures his dad still in the third base coach’s box for the Dodgers.

— Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026

Definition of pictures

Noun

The baseball player, entertainer and social media personality rose to fame with the exhibition barnstorming baseball team, which puts on dance routines, comedy sketches and more.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026
Some historians point to one of Leonardo’s sketches from about the same time that show a David-like nude with a leaf over its groin, arguing that Leonardo wanted Michelangelo’s masterpiece modestly concealed.

— Alicja Zelazko, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of sketches

Noun

King managed to take the suffocating history of the Indian — the treaties, the massacres, the Hollywood caricatures — and turn it into something conversational, even funny.

— Tommy Orange, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026
Retailer Target pulled a children’s Halloween costume from its shelves Monday after widespread social media backlash, apologizing for selling a garment critics said evoked racist minstrel caricatures.

— Nancy Jiang, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of caricatures

Noun

In portraits in homes and classrooms, in daily photographs on the front page of the country’s main party newspaper, on the lapel badges that citizens had pinned over their hearts, Kim’s image was the very iconography of the state.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2026
After two decades in commercial property and about two years of drawing bad dog portraits, Heckels quit his job and started drawing portraits nearly every day instead.

— Maddie Rhodes, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026

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