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cinemaphobe

cinemaphobe noun: one who dislikes movies.

Noun

cinemaphobe (plural cinemaphobes)

  1. One who dislikes movies.
    • He, the dentist, had sat beside his cinemaphobe pal and as each foot of reel unfolded itself, piling banality upon trash, they had stood the abuse from the screen quite a while, because he insisted to his friend, who seemed to be losing his mind, that what I endorsed would turn out to be brilliant...1956, Elliot Paul, Film flam, page 79
    • Even a cinemaphobe operaphile ought to score twenty or more.1986, “Quarterly Quiz: I Heard It At The Movies”, in The opera quarterly, volume 4, numbers 1-2

Forms of cinemaphobe

pluralcinemaphobes

Origin of cinemaphobe

From cinema + -phobe.

Questions about cinemaphobe

What does cinemaphobe mean?
Cinemaphobe means one who dislikes movies.
What part of speech is cinemaphobe?
Cinemaphobe is a noun.
What is the plural of cinemaphobe?
The plural of cinemaphobe is cinemaphobes.

Words near cinemaphobe in the dictionary

  1. cinemalike
  2. cinemansion
  3. cinemansions
  4. cinemaphile
  5. cinemaphiles
  6. cinemaphobe
  7. cinemaphobes
  8. cinemaphotographer
  9. cinemaphotographers
  10. cinemaphotography
  11. cinemas

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