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cartoonish

adj

Etymology

From cartoon + -ish. Piecewise doublet of cartoonesque.

  1. derived from χάρτης
  2. derived from carta
  3. derived from cartone
  4. derived from carton
  5. suffixed as cartoonish — “cartoon + ish”

Definitions

  1. Exaggerated or caricatured, in the manner of a cartoon.

    • She was grinning a big, cartoonish grin.
    • [David] Remnick suggested it was “cartoonish”, to which [Anna] Wintour agreed, adding: “Yes, a caricature.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA