cartoonishly
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5.9
- adverb
- /kɑrˈtunɪʃli/
:
de manera exagerada
- His reaction to the news was cartoonishly over the top, making everyone laugh.
- cartoonishly bulging eyes
- almost cartoonishly
- so cartoonishly
Examples
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First, the Jewish captors are distinguished from their apostolic counterparts not by pointed caps, as at Naumburg, but rather by cartoonishly exaggerated facial features.
Academic text (2000) -
The audience appreciates that the cartoonishly painted backdrop is no more real than the cartoonishly painted Looney Tunes world it inhabits.
Blog text (7) -
Get in the cartoonishly evil vehicle... ...and drive!
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Instead, he came off looking like an almost cartoonishly generic Republican.
Blog text (15) -
Their names tell you that they're almost cartoonishly American types.
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Here, some of the WBB team members come out to accept a cartoonishly oversized check.
Blog text (1) -
He opened his mouth in cartoonishly exaggerated surprise at seeing Strand and Zip in the room.
Fiction book (1997) -
Furthermore, the Earthmen are portrayed as cartoonishly evil, being motivated by sheer greed (just bad character development).
Blog text (25) -
You can't dismiss his argument simply by cartoonishly chanting "taxes are bad, increased spending is bad, and that's what the people voted against anyway."
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Graphics are unchanged from the first Borderlands—everything is richly textured and cartoonishly cell-shaded.
Blog text (27)
Synonyms
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6.4
In a silly, foolish way like a clown
In a very dramatic, playful way that makes people laugh
Antonyms
How Cartoonish
Surface Forms
Morphology
cartoonishly = cartoonish (transparent) = cartoon + ish + ly
The adverb 'cartoonishly' is transparently derived from the adjective 'cartoonish' by adding the adverbial suffix '-ly'.
Etymology
The word cartoonishly comes from cartoon. Cartoon originally came from an Italian term for 'big paper' used for drawings, and cartoons show people and things in a simple, funny, or impossible way. So to do something cartoonishly is to act in an exaggerated, unrealistic way, like a drawing come to life.