cartoonish
cartoonish adjective: exaggerated or caricatured, in the manner of a cartoon.
Adjective
cartoonish (comparative more cartoonish, superlative most cartoonish)
- Exaggerated or caricatured, in the manner of a cartoon.
- She was grinning a big, cartoonish grin.
- Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke. With Hot Cakes—the group’s third album, and first since reforming last year—the laughter has died. In its...2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club
- Synonyms:
- cartoonesque, cartoonlike, cartoony
cartoonish meaning in Marathi
cartoonish in Marathi
- Translations
- कार्टूनसारखा kārṭūnsārkhā, व्यंगचित्रासारखा vyaṅgcitrāsārkhā
Examples of cartoonish in a sentence
- Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke.2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club:
- [David] Remnick suggested it was “cartoonish”, to which [Anna] Wintour agreed, adding: “Yes, a caricature.”2025 September 10, Catherine Shoard, “‘It was a fair shot’: Anna Wintour belatedly gives her verdict on The Devil Wears Prada”, in The...
Synonyms of cartoonish
Forms of cartoonish
| comparative | more cartoonish |
|---|---|
| superlative | most cartoonish |
Origin of cartoonish
From cartoon + -ish. Piecewise doublet of cartoonesque.
Words formed from cartoonish
Questions about cartoonish
- What does cartoonish mean?
- Cartoonish means exaggerated or caricatured, in the manner of a cartoon.
- What is cartoonish in Marathi?
- Cartoonish in Marathi is कार्टूनसारखा (kārṭūnsārkhā), व्यंगचित्रासारखा (vyaṅgcitrāsārkhā). See Cartoonish meaning in Marathi.
- How do you use cartoonish in a sentence?
- Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke.
- What part of speech is cartoonish?
- Cartoonish is an adjective.
Words near cartoonish in the dictionary
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