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单词 cartooning
释义

cartoon

noun

car·​toon kär-ˈtün How to pronounce cartoon (audio)
often attributive
1
: a preparatory design, drawing, or painting (as for a fresco)
2
a
: a drawing intended as satire, caricature, or humor
a political cartoon
b
: comic strip
3
: animated cartoon
4
: a ludicrously simplistic, unrealistic, or one-dimensional portrayal or version
the film's villain is an entertaining cartoon
cartoon verb
cartooning
kär-ˈtü-niŋ How to pronounce cartoon (audio)
noun
cartoonish
kär-ˈtü-nish How to pronounce cartoon (audio)
adjective
cartoonishly adverb
cartoonist
kär-ˈtü-nist How to pronounce cartoon (audio)
noun
cartoonlike
kär-ˈtün-ˌlīk How to pronounce cartoon (audio)
adjective
cartoony
kär-ˈtü-nē How to pronounce cartoon (audio)
adjective

Synonyms

  • delineation
  • drawing
  • sketch
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Example Sentences

She enjoys reading the cartoons in the Sunday paper. The kids are watching cartoons.
Recent Examples on the Web Robert Galbraith, the sixth installment of her Cormoran Strike series follows Edie Ledwell, a co-creator of a popular cartoon called The Ink Black Heart. Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2022 Funny Pages is not a cartoon, but its young hero, Roger, nevertheless comes off like a coyote on the run from the anvils threatening to fall on his head. K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2022 In 2010, a new cartoon premiered with these bold lines. Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2022 The laws that say so have been put forward by a cohort of nonprofessionals who generate their own confident representations of the body and its limits, unburdened by clinical nuance, as simple as a cartoon. Wired, 11 Aug. 2022 It’s one thing to pitch a cartoon and show drawings. Mike Sacks, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2022 This may sound like nitpicking for a cartoon that’s intended to be frivolous and fun, except that luck isn’t one of those phenomena that people around the globe can agree on. Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Aug. 2022 Conversely, Shoshanna was a cartoon for most of the show's run, but her occasional frustration was palpable. Darren Franich, EW.com, 15 Apr. 2022 Which is to say, that game — and others like it — was a cartoon. Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Mar. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Italian cartone pasteboard, cartoon, augmentative of carta leaf of paper — more at card entry 1

First Known Use

1671, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

cartoon

noun

car·​toon kär-ˈtün How to pronounce cartoon (audio)
1
: a movie or television program made by photographing a series of drawings
2
: a drawing (as in a newspaper) making people or objects look funny or foolish
3
: comic strip

cartooning

verb

present participle of cartoon
as in caricaturing

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • caricaturing
  • drawing
  • inking
  • crayoning
  • penciling
  • sketching
  • profiling
  • pencilling
  • outlining
  • picturing
  • scribbling
  • scrawling
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