animated cartoon

[an-uh-mey-tid kahr-toon] / ˈæn əˌmeɪ tɪd kɑrˈtun /

NOUN

animated movie

Synonyms

WEAK

animation cartoon cell animation claymation comic comic strip drawing

Example Sentences

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Sitting beside a bouquet of flowers, the two protesters have posted videos on YouTube in which they call themselves Pinky and Brain, taken from an animated cartoon about lab rats in the late 1990s.

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2023

Disney's 1937 animated cartoon "Lonesome Ghosts" features Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy as members of a ghost extermination team tasked with driving out four ghosts from an abandoned, haunted house.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2022

On the other side of a creative gush that produced 164 drawings, he prepared a sequence of 73, which he likened to a home movie or an animated cartoon.

From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 2020

One of the calls was recorded and published on YouTube and Facebook on Monday night by the hoaxers with an animated cartoon of Harry and Greta.

From Fox News • Mar. 11, 2020

It was sort of like watching an animated cartoon.

From The Right Time by Berryman, John