cartoonish
- adjective
- /kɑrˈtunɪʃ/
- 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.
- It was the most surrealistic and less sort of cartoonish version of Gotham in some ways.
- And they open one door and it's the it's a slightly more cartoonish animation of the Squidward sewer slide face.
- The problem is that we can a get into a kind of caricatured, cartoonish idea of where there will be great, viable people.
- They just want to write these very cartoonish, infantile style of women.
- So there is, it's almost cartoonish.
- The, the, the, the font, the, the, the, the sort of like cartoonish.
- It does seem that it's the first time where we got started to get really cartoonish.
- Like, just just to see that and the cartoonish wave is so good, but then to have ten other people report that it's almost.
- They might not always be a big cartoonish, you know, racist who's just yelling at the top of his lungs, but it comes across subtly.
- And so we went for more artsy would see cartoonish little, very little kid, but it's still not too childish for other people.
- I am like blue collar in the most bougie, like lame, cartoonish soft job ever.
Examples
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You know, I didn't find this movie to be as cartoonish as I expected it to be.
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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.
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And with this one, the biggest cartoonish thing that happens is a smile is had at the very end.
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- It's quite cartoonish, not real.
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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.
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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.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
Showing bright colors, simple shapes, and big, funny actions to look playful
Having exaggerated, funny features like a cartoon
Antonyms
How Cartoonish
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.