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cartoony

cartoony

5 4.6
Showing bright colors, simple shapes, and big, funny actions to look playful
  • adjective
  • /kɑrˈtunɪ/
: caricaturesco
  • His drawing style is very cartoony, emphasizing exaggerated expressions and playful designs.
  • big cartoony
  • almost cartoony
  • too cartoony

It's so cartoony, but it's, it's very funny.

Examples

  • He's menacing and cartoony at the same time and is a delight to watch on screen.

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  • It seemed that when we went too much with the purple, it just gave it a cartoony look.

  • It's not nearly so cut and dry as a very cartoony view would suggest.

  • It's so cartoony, but it's, it's very funny.

  • So we could go a little more cartoony with these.

  • This place is too cartoony for me.

  • We picked the cartoony art direction for two reasons:

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  • How could you ever be too cartoony?

  • In some ways, his films are as cartoony as Tim Burton's.

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  • OK, that's kind of cartoony version of a crab, right?

Synonyms

cartoonish
vscartoony
9 4.2

Very exaggerated and silly like a cartoon

is broader and used for playful behaviour as well as appearance
clownish
vscartoony
4 4.5

Acting in a silly, exaggerated way like a clown

is about playful exaggeration in look or manner not foolishness
caricatural
vscartoony
1 8.0

Having exaggerated, funny features like a cartoon

is more playful and less about deliberate distortion for emphasis

Antonyms

∞ 1.4

Calm and focused, not playful or joking

248 3.7

Having sensible ideas about what can be achieved

How Cartoonish

exaggerated
71 4.1
cartoony
5 4.6
stylized
17 5.9

Surface Forms

cartoony positive
cartoonier comparative
cartooniest superlative

Morphology

cartoony = cartoon (transparent) = cartoon + y

Meaning is directly derived from 'cartoon' + '-y' to mean 'like a cartoon' (exaggerated/simplified), which is easily inferable by learners.

Etymology

Cartoony comes from cartoon plus the ending -y, which means 'like' or 'full of'. So cartoony simply means 'like a cartoon', bright, exaggerated, and playful.