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cartoonistic en · ADJ

Etymology

From cartoon + -istic.

Meanings

1. Having qualities of, or resembling a cartoon.
   • His face was a construction of overlapping planes, almost cartoonistic, an illusion that was furthered by the black patch over his left eye socket. 2015, Ellery Queen, What's in the Dark?:
   • It depicted Nast bowing with cartoonistic exaggeration before the American minister to Chile. 1927, Henry Lane Wilson, Diplomatic episodes in Mexico, Belgium, and Chile, Kennikat Press:

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