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television | untelevisable |

As a noun television

is television.

As an adjective untelevisable is

not televisable; unsuitable for television.

television

Noun

  • (uncountable) An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
  • It’s a good thing that television doesn’t transmit smell.
  • (countable) A device for receiving television signals and displaying them in visual form.
  • I have an old television in the study.
  • (uncountable) Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
  • fifty-seven channels and nothing on television

    Derived terms

    (television) * cable television * on television * televangelism * televangelist * television channel * television network * television station * TV

    Synonyms

    (television) * boob tube * cultural barbiturate * electronic babysitter * glass teat * goggle box * idiot box * plebvision * the shit box * television set * telly * the tube * TV

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (neologism, informal) To watch television.
  • Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words ----

    untelevisable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not televisable; unsuitable for television.
  • * 1969 , Harper's Bazaar (volume 102)
  • 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
  • * 1973 , The Listener (volume 91)
  • It soon became apparent, though, that the Shetland way of life was untelevisable , because the glibness and publicity that television brings instantly efface it.
  • * 1979 , Sidney Kraus, Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford, The Great Debates: Carter vs. Ford, 1976
  • 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 .