Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

untelevisable

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-tele-vis-able
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not televisable; unsuitable for television.

Example Sentences

"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[…]"
"It soon became apparent, though, that the Shetland way of life was untelevisable, because the glibness and publicity that television brings instantly efface it."
"We were very cognizant that a horrendously large part of this whole audience would be viewers on television, and so it would be foolish, I thought, to create a set that was untelevisable."

Etymology

From un- + televisable.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Inflected Forms

more untelevisable (comparative) most untelevisable (superlative)

Questions

What does untelevisable mean?: Not televisable; unsuitable for television.
Where does untelevisable come from?: From un- + televisable.

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