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TV-phobic

TV-phobic adjective: having a dislike of television.

Adjective

TV-phobic (comparative more TV-phobic, superlative most TV-phobic)

  1. Having a dislike of television.
    • It helped that there were plenty of celebrities — from Billy Graham to Tiny Tim to Johnny Carson to Leonard Nimoy to TV-phobic John Wayne […]2004, Joe Garner, Richard Pryor, Made You Laugh!
    • Even the short-lived phenomenon of Twin Peaks, which attracted otherwise TV-phobic intellectuals to the television set when it debuted in 1990 […]2008, Gary Richard Edgerton, Jeffrey P Jones, The Essential HBO Reader

Forms of TV-phobic

comparativemore TV-phobic
superlativemost TV-phobic

Origin of TV-phobic

From TV + -phobic.

Questions about TV-phobic

What does TV-phobic mean?
TV-phobic means having a dislike of television.
What part of speech is TV-phobic?
TV-phobic is an adjective.

Words near TV-phobic in the dictionary

  1. TV tuners
  2. TV typewriter
  3. TV typewriters
  4. TV white
  5. TV wife
  6. TV-phobic
  7. TVA
  8. TVaholic
  9. TVaholics
  10. tvalchrelidzeite
  11. Tvashtr

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