cartoon
A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.
Other meanings
A drawing satirising current public figures.
“The newspaper published a political cartoon mocking the mayor.”
An artist's preliminary sketch.
Synonyms
- sketch
Related words
- cartooner
- cartoonesque
- spokestoon
- animated cartoon
- cartoon character
- cartoonery
- cartooney
- cartoonish
- cartoonist
- cartoonistic
- cartoonlike
- cartoony
Example sentences
Word history
From Ancient Greek "χάρτης".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “cartoon” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.