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untelevisable

untelevisable adjective: not televisable; unsuitable for television.

Adjective

untelevisable (comparative more untelevisable, superlative most untelevisable)

  1. Not televisable; unsuitable for television.
    • Now that TV has replaced movies as the mass entertainment medium, Hollywood has responded with untelevisable sex — not Doris Day, twin-bed sex, but moaning, thrashing, rolling-around-naked sex[…]1969, Harper's Bazaar, volume 102
    • It soon became apparent, though, that the Shetland way of life was untelevisable, because the glibness and publicity that television brings instantly efface it.1973, The Listener, volume 91

Forms of untelevisable

comparativemore untelevisable
superlativemost untelevisable

Origin of untelevisable

From un- + televisable.

Questions about untelevisable

What does untelevisable mean?
Untelevisable means not televisable; unsuitable for television.
What part of speech is untelevisable?
Untelevisable is an adjective.

Words near untelevisable in the dictionary

  1. untelegraphed
  2. unteleological
  3. untelephoned
  4. unteleported
  5. unteleprompted
  6. untelevisable
  7. untelevised
  8. untell
  9. untellability
  10. untellable
  11. untellably

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