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Cartoon vs Cartoonlike - What's the difference?

cartoon | cartoonlike |

As a noun cartoon

is cartoon (comic strip).

As an adjective cartoonlike is

resembling a cartoon.

cartoon

English

(wikipedia cartoon)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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
    • 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.
  • A diagram in a scientific concept.

    • Synonyms

    * (humorous drawing or strip) comic strip, strip cartoon * (satire of public figures) caricature, political cartoon

    Related terms

    * cartoonist * comic book * funnies * funny papers * funny pages * strip cartoon

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (arts, comics, animation) To draw a cartoon.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    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