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audience-proof

audience-proof adjective: of a play, etc.: resistant to negative responses from the audience; popular with everybody.

Adjective

audience-proof (comparative more audience-proof, superlative most audience-proof)

  1. Of a play, etc.: resistant to negative responses from the audience; popular with everybody.
    • To fill in her time she wrote a three-act play which was produced at the Arts Theatre. It did not set the Thames on fire. "Of course," she admitted, "it was my fault for not writing an audience-proof play. […]1951, Horace Wyndham, Chorus to Coronet, page 126
    • Hazel Kirk had been fashioned out of ingredients that had long proven audience proof — a projected marriage […]1974, The Players Magazine, volume 50, page 42

Forms of audience-proof

comparativemore audience-proof
superlativemost audience-proof

Origin of audience-proof

From audience + -proof.

Questions about audience-proof

What does audience-proof mean?
Audience-proof means of a play, etc.: resistant to negative responses from the audience; popular with everybody.
What part of speech is audience-proof?
Audience-proof is an adjective.

Words near audience-proof in the dictionary

  1. audience right
  2. audience surrogate
  3. audience surrogates
  4. audience wave
  5. audience waves
  6. audience-proof
  7. audienceless
  8. audiencelessness
  9. audiences
  10. audiencia
  11. audiencias

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