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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
/ kɑːˈtuːn /
noun
- a humorous or satirical drawing, esp one in a newspaper or magazine, concerning a topical event
- Also calledcomic 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
Derived Forms
- carˈtoonist, noun
Other Words From
- car·toonish adjective
- car·toonist noun
- uncar·tooned adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of cartoon1
Example Sentences
The term gerrymandering comes from an 1812 political cartoon that rendered it in essentially aesthetic terms.
In the legendary Fox cartoon’s first season in 1989, the average episode was exactly 23 minutes long.
When it comes to fitting in, Mikko was proud to be on 17th Street, and proud to show off his new outdoor dining tables, again with the Nordic colors and depictions of classic Finnish cartoon characters.
In the meantime, you could, like County Supervisor Jim Desmond, just shoot cartoon versions of the virus with your gun.
When I was in elementary school, there were only three channels — and lots of cartoons.
But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.
Editorial and political cartoon pages from throughout the world almost unanimously came to the same conclusion.
The first two videos are teasers featuring two favorite cartoon characters for young girls, Dora the Explorer and Tinkerbell.
As it turns out, though, cartoon curmudgeons get the best, most ridiculous lines.
You know the cartoon segment that used to be in colour in rancid old newspapers?
As to technique, Schwind was a child of the cartoon era; as regards tenderness of feeling, he is a modern.
Moreover, Gros did not content himself with the scanty palette and the miserable cartoon-draughtsmanship of his contemporaries.
The exceptions are in the books printed explanations, not in any cartoon.
It is therefore highly significant that Mr. Raemaekers has in this cartoon conceived the devil primarily as a kind of ogre.
The cartoon in which the Prussian is depicted as saying to his bound and gagged victim, "Ain't I a lovable fellow?"
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