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unfilmable

unfilmable adjective: not suitable or able to be filmed.

Adjective

unfilmable (comparative more unfilmable, superlative most unfilmable)

  1. Not suitable or able to be filmed.
    • The dense, bleak, multilayered graphic novel was declared unfilmable first by its writer Alan Moore and then by 12 Monkeys director Terry Gilliam, who was the first man to try and fail.2009 February 22, James Wigney, “No more Mr Nice Guy”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2009
    • But Benioff, Weiss, and their collaborator Alexander Woo have undoubtedly proved yet again that there is no such thing as an unfilmable novel.2024 March 21, Lucy Mangan, “3 Body Problem review – the creators of Game of Thrones have done it again”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Forms of unfilmable

comparativemore unfilmable
superlativemost unfilmable

Origin of unfilmable

From un- + filmable.

Questions about unfilmable

What does unfilmable mean?
Unfilmable means not suitable or able to be filmed.
What part of speech is unfilmable?
Unfilmable is an adjective.

Words near unfilmable in the dictionary

  1. unfilledness
  2. unfilleted
  3. unfilling
  4. unfills
  5. unfilm
  6. unfilmable
  7. unfilmed
  8. unfilmic
  9. unfilming
  10. unfilms
  11. unfilter

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