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Cartoony vs Cartoonish - What's the difference?

cartoony | cartoonish | Synonyms |

Cartoonish is a synonym of cartoony.



As adjectives the difference between cartoony and cartoonish

is that cartoony is having the style of a cartoon while cartoonish is exaggerated or caricatured, in the manner of a cartoon.

cartoony

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having the style of a cartoon

    • Derived terms

    * cartooney *

    Anagrams

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    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