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nontheatrical

nontheatrical adjective: not theatrical.

Adjective

nontheatrical (not comparable)

  1. Not theatrical.

Noun

nontheatrical (plural nontheatricals)

  1. A film that is not shown commercially in movie theaters.
    • […] first task is to determine how best to handle the new field and to find channels of distribution for schoolroom films, industrial reels and subjects pertaining to other forms of non-theatricals.1932, Motion Picture Herald, volume 106, numbers 1-6, page 15

Forms of nontheatrical

pluralnontheatricals

Origin of nontheatrical

From non- + theatrical.

Questions about nontheatrical

What does nontheatrical mean?
Nontheatrical means not theatrical.
What part of speech is nontheatrical?
Nontheatrical can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near nontheatrical in the dictionary

  1. nontextured
  2. Nonthaburi
  3. nonthalamic
  4. nonthallium
  5. nontheater
  6. nontheatrical
  7. nontheatricals
  8. nontheft
  9. nontheism
  10. nontheisms
  11. nontheist

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