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Cartoonish vs Cartoonlike - What's the difference?

cartoonish | cartoonlike | Synonyms |

Cartoonlike is a synonym of cartoonish.



As adjectives the difference between cartoonish and cartoonlike

is that cartoonish is exaggerated or caricatured, in the manner of a cartoon while cartoonlike is resembling a cartoon.

cartoonish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Exaggerated or caricatured, in the manner of a cartoon
    • She was grinning a big, cartoonish grin.
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=August 21 , author=Jason Heller , title=The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review) , work=The Onion AV Club 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.}}

    Synonyms

    * cartoony

    Derived terms

    * cartoonishly

    cartoonlike

    English

    Alternative forms

    * cartoon-like

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling a cartoon
  • * {{quote-news, year=1988, date=July 1, author=Tom Boeker, title=Little Caesar, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=The gangsters use "dese and dose" accents, the props are cartoonlike (dollar bills the size of legal paper and cardboard cutout guns), and the acting style is distinguished by histrionic poses. }}

    Synonyms

    * cartoonish