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screensavery

screensavery adjective: resembling a screensaver.

Adjective

screensavery (comparative more screensavery, superlative most screensavery)

  1. (informal) Resembling a screensaver.
    • Anyway, I haven't seen the pack around a lot, in fact I've only seen it in a Game Zone store, and even then it was tucked away from the other screensavery bits and pieces.1997 January 10, Andy, “B5 Screensaver, Wallpaper Thang”, in uk.media.tv.sf.babylon5 (Usenet)
    • You can play your iTunes music while watching those cool screensavery visualizers on your HDTV.2012, David Pogue, OS X Mountain Lion: The Missing Manual, Bejing […]: O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 494

Forms of screensavery

comparativemore screensavery
superlativemost screensavery

Origin of screensavery

From screensaver + -y.

Questions about screensavery

What does screensavery mean?
Screensavery means resembling a screensaver.
What part of speech is screensavery?
Screensavery is an adjective.

Words near screensavery in the dictionary

  1. screens out
  2. screens passage
  3. screens passages
  4. screensaver
  5. screensavers
  6. screensavery
  7. screenscape
  8. screenscapes
  9. screenscrape
  10. screenscraped
  11. screenscrapes

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