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cartooning

cartooning is the present participle and gerund of cartoon.

Meaning of cartoon

Verb

cartoon (third-person singular simple present cartoons, present participle cartooning, simple past and past participle cartooned)

  1. (animation) To draw a cartoon, a humorous drawing.
  2. To make a preliminary sketch.

See all 9 meanings of cartoon

Noun

cartooning (usually uncountable, plural cartoonings)

  1. (usually) The act of drawing a cartoon or caricature.

Forms of cartooning

pluralcartoonings

Questions about cartooning

What does cartooning mean?
Cartooning means the act of drawing a cartoon or caricature.
What is cartooning the present participle and gerund of?
Cartooning is the present participle and gerund of cartoon.
What part of speech is cartooning?
Cartooning is a noun.
What is the plural of cartooning?
The plural of cartooning is cartoonings.

Words near cartooning in the dictionary

  1. cartoonified
  2. cartoonifies
  3. cartoonify
  4. cartoonifying
  5. cartooniness
  6. cartooning
  7. cartoonings
  8. cartoonish
  9. cartoonishly
  10. cartoonishness
  11. cartoonist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cartooning (page history and authors); cartoon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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