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cartoon
[kahr-toon]
noun
a sketch or drawing, usually humorous, as in a newspaper or periodical, symbolizing, satirizing, or caricaturing some action, subject, or person of popular interest.
Fine Arts.a full-scale design for a picture, ornamental motif or pattern, or the like, to be transferred to a fresco, tapestry, etc.
adjective
resembling a cartoon or caricature.
The novel is full of predictable, cartoon characters, never believable as real people.
verb (used with object)
to represent by a cartoon.
verb (used without object)
to draw cartoons.
cartoon
/ ɑːˈٳː /
noun
a humorous or satirical drawing, esp one in a newspaper or magazine, concerning a topical event
Also called: comic strip.a sequence of drawings in a newspaper, magazine, etc, relating a comic or adventurous situation
See animated cartoon
a full-size preparatory sketch for a fresco, tapestry, mosaic, etc, from which the final work is traced or copied
Other Word Forms
- cartoonish adjective
- cartoonist noun
- uncartooned adjective
- ˈٴǴDzԾ noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of cartoon1
Example Sentences
As Paramount struggles to complete a key merger, the company is in the midst of a protracted negotiation to extend one of its biggest and most important franchises: the long-running foulmouthed cartoon “South Park.”
Our brains know a cartoon isn’t real — be it a rascally rabbit, a culinary rat or a dragon with the same sheen as salt licorice — and yet our hearts gift it with life.
Several hours later, Newsom read to young students at Compton’s Clinton Elementary School before standing with local leaders in front of a cheery, cartoon mural to launch a new state literacy plan.
If an out-of-control clown gives you the creeps, check out the crowd in cartoon masks meant to disguise evil.
The company SLACKCiRCUS re-recorded a silly version of the song and then synced it to scenes from the 1980s cartoon “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.”
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