offscreen

See also: off-screen

English

Alternative forms

• off-screen

Etymology

From off +‎ screen.

Adjective

offscreen (not comparable)

1. Existing or happening outside the frame of the cinema or television screen
   • 2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     In addition to racking up what looks like a substantial offscreen body count, the movie at one point offers an eight-second introduction for a sleazy used-car salesman character for the sole purpose of justifying Tripp and Creech laying waste to his inventory.

Translations

existing or happening outside the frame of the cinema or television screen

• Danish: uden for billedet
• Finnish: kuvan ulkopuolinen
• French: hors-champ (fr) m
• Russian: зака́дровый (ru) (zakádrovyj)

Adverb

offscreen (not comparable)

1. Outside the frame of the cinema or television screen

Antonyms

• onscreen

Verb

offscreen (third-person singular simple present offscreens, present participle offscreening, simple past and past participle offscreened)

1. To kill a character offscreen.

   Yeah, I also hate her. I hope she gets offscreened in the third act low-key.

See also

• offstage