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cartoonish

cartoonish

9 4.2
Very exaggerated and silly like a cartoon
  • adjective
  • /kɑrˈtunɪʃ/
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  • The character in the movie has a cartoonish style, with exaggerated features and bright colors.

It was the most surrealistic and less sort of cartoonish version of Gotham in some ways.

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Examples

  • You know, I didn't find this movie to be as cartoonish as I expected it to be.

  • You seem to hold a very cartoonish view of both philosophy and science.

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  • But this cartoonish thing, which is quite funny.

  • And with this one, the biggest cartoonish thing that happens is a smile is had at the very end.

  • - It's quite cartoonish, not real.

  • We all met, and it was a cartoonish love at first sound sort of thing.

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  • We got a nice skin color, cartoonish look to really bring out the Princess in her.

  • I thought the movie was pretty cartoonish, especially in its depiction of the white characters.

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  • Many of his best-known films were trivial entertainments in which he played cartoonish heroes.

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  • The media-refracted view of Arizona and its neighbor to the south is cartoonish: a quasi-fascist police state perched above a failing narco state.

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Synonyms

cartoony
vscartoonish
5 4.6

Showing bright colors, simple shapes, and big, funny actions to look playful

is broader and can mean merely silly or generally exaggerated
caricatural
vscartoonish
1 8.0

Having exaggerated, funny features like a cartoon

is more about simple silliness than deliberate artistic distortion

Antonyms

∞ 1.4

Calm and focused, not playful or joking

84 4.1

Showing things as they are in real life

How Cartoonish

exaggerated
71 4.1
cartoonish
9 4.2
stylized
17 5.9

Surface Forms

cartoonish positive

Morphology

cartoonish = cartoon (transparent) = cartoon + ish

The adjective is directly formed by adding the productive suffix '-ish' to 'cartoon', yielding 'resembling or characteristic of a cartoon'.

Etymology

Cartoonish comes from cartoon, the simple, often funny drawings you see in comics and papers, and the ending -ish, which means 'like'. So something cartoonish is 'like' a cartoon — very exaggerated, silly, or not realistic.