Cartoon vs Cartoonish - What's the difference?
cartoon | cartoonish |
(comics) A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.
(comics) A drawing satirising current public figures.
(arts) An artist's preliminary sketch.
(animation) An animated piece of film which is often but not exclusively humorous.
* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
A diagram in a scientific concept.
Exaggerated or caricatured, in the manner of a cartoon
*{{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=August 21
, author=Jason Heller
, title=The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)
, work=The Onion AV Club
As a noun cartoon
is cartoon (comic strip).As an adjective cartoonish is
exaggerated or caricatured, in the manner of a cartoon.cartoon
English
(wikipedia cartoon)Noun
(en noun)- The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon , lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
Synonyms
* (humorous drawing or strip) comic strip, strip cartoon * (satire of public figures) caricature, political cartoonAnagrams
* ----cartoonish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She was grinning a big, cartoonish grin.
citation, page= , passage=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.}}
