Television vs Untelevisable - What's the difference?
television | untelevisable |
(uncountable) An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
(countable) A device for receiving television signals and displaying them in visual form.
(uncountable) Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
Not televisable; unsuitable for television.
* 1969 , Harper's Bazaar (volume 102)
* 1973 , The Listener (volume 91)
* 1979 , Sidney Kraus, Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford, The Great Debates: Carter vs. Ford, 1976
As a noun television
is television.As an adjective untelevisable is
not televisable; unsuitable for television.television
English
(wikipedia television)Noun
- It’s a good thing that television doesn’t transmit smell.
- I have an old television in the study.
- fifty-seven channels and nothing on television
Derived terms
(television) * cable television * on television * televangelism * televangelist * television channel * television network * television station * TVSynonyms
(television) * boob tube * cultural barbiturate * electronic babysitter * glass teat * goggle box * idiot box * plebvision * the shit box * television set * telly * the tube * TVAnagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----untelevisable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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 .
