cartoon

Meaning of cartoon

noun
  1. a simple drawing showing the features of its subjects in a humorously exaggerated way, especially a satirical one in a newspaper or magazine.
    the minister faced a welter of hostile headlines and mocking cartoons
  2. a film using animation techniques to photograph a sequence of drawings rather than real people or objects.
    we watched Yogi Bear cartoons on TV
    cartoon characters
    a cartoon show
  3. a full-size drawing made by an artist as a preliminary design for a painting or other work of art.
    the tapestries are based on a set of cartoons commissioned by Pope Leo XI
verb
  1. make a drawing of (someone) in a simplified or exaggerated way.
    she has a face with enough character to be cartooned

late 16th century (in cartoon (sense 3 of the noun)): from Italian cartone, from carta, from Latin carta, charta (see card1). cartoon (sense 1 of the noun) dates from the mid 19th century.

Information about cartoon

Hyphenation of cartoon

car-toon

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • cartoon is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

cartoon synonyms

Meaning sketch:

sketch

Meaning animated cartoon:

toon

Meaning a picture, description, or imitation of a person in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect:

caricature

Meaning an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect:

parody

Meaning a speech or text lampooning someone or something:

lampoon

Meaning the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues:

satire

Meaning a false, absurd, or distorted representation of something:

travesty

Meaning the action of distorting or the state of being distorted:

distortion

Meaning a humorous imitation of something, typically a film or a particular genre of film, in which its characteristic features are exaggerated for comic effect:

spoof

Meaning a satire or lampoon, originally one displayed or delivered in a public place:

pasquinade

Meaning the state of being full of life or vigour; liveliness:

animation

Meaning a style of Japanese film and television animation, typically aimed at adults as well as children:

anime

Meaning a disreputable and violent person:

rough

Meaning a line or set of lines enclosing or indicating the shape of an object in a sketch or diagram:

outline

Meaning the action of describing or portraying something precisely:

delineation

Meaning a copy of a drawing, map, or design made by tracing:

tracing

Meaning a sketch made by a painter as a preliminary guide and subsequently covered with layers of paint:

underdrawing

Meaning a sculptor's small preliminary model or sketch:

maquette

Meaning a rough or preliminary sketch:

esquisse

Meaning a rough draft; a sketch:

croquis

Translation of cartoon

Anagrams of cartoon

Cortona, coranto

Words that rhyme with cartoon

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