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cartoonish

cartoonish

10 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.

    Academic text (2010)
  • 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
8.0

Having exaggerated, funny features like a cartoon

is more about simple silliness than deliberate artistic distortion

Antonyms

452 1.4

Calm and focused, not playful or joking

65 4.1

Showing things as they are in real life

How Cartoonish

exaggerated
1 4.1
cartoonish
10 4.2
stylized
11 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.