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off-screen

off-screen is the alternative form of offscreen.

Meaning of offscreen

Adjective

offscreen (not comparable)

  1. Existing or happening outside the frame of the cinema or television screen.
    • In addition to racking up what looks like a substantial offscreen body count, the movie at one point offers an eight-second introduction for a sleazy used-car salesman character for the sole purpose of justifying Tripp and Creech laying waste to his inventory.2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club
    Antonyms:
    onscreen

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Antonyms of off-screen

Questions about off-screen

What is off-screen the alternative form of?
Off-screen is the alternative form of offscreen.

Words near off-screen in the dictionary

  1. off-roll
  2. off-rolled
  3. off-rolling
  4. off-rolls
  5. off-sale
  6. off-screen
  7. off-script
  8. off-season
  9. off-seasons
  10. off-set
  11. off-sets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: off-screen (page history and authors); offscreen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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