Cartoonish

Quick meaning: Cartoonish is an adjective meaning (figurative) Exaggerated or caricatured, in the manner of a cartoon.

Meaning

(figurative) Exaggerated or caricatured, in the manner of a cartoon.

Example Sentences

She was grinning a big, cartoonish grin.

[David] Remnick suggested it was “cartoonish”, to which [Anna] Wintour agreed, adding: “Yes, a caricature.”

His requirement for compliments, flattery, adoration and awards is so continual and extreme that it is of cartoonish proportions, with all the garishness that characterizes the most exaggerated satire.

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 place is the sad wheeze of the last surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating.

Synonyms for cartoonish

Depending on context, synonyms include cartoonesque, cartoonlike, cartoony.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include caricaturistic, cartoonesque, cartoonistic, caricatural, caricaturish, cartoonlike.

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