televisionish

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English

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Etymology

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From television +‎ -ish.

Adjective

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televisionish (comparative more televisionish, superlative most televisionish)

  1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of television or a television show.
    • 1985, Newsweek, volume 106, numbers 10-18, page 88:
      His straightforward, somewhat televisionish script benefits from the clean, classical directorial style of Czech-born, British-bred Karel Reisz ("The French Lieutenant's Woman").
    • 2009, Jerome Baker, “The Thin Man's Disappearing Act”, The Collected Short Stories of Jerome Baker, Xlibris, →ISBN (hardcover), →ISBN (softcover), 149:
      A shop that wasn't here before, an old Chinaman in a shop of oriental oddities—this is too televisionish to be true!
    • 2009, Brian D'Amato, In the Courts of the Sun[1], Dutton, →ISBN:
      There was televisionish sound coming from a bright but deserted-looking break room, and I went in.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:televisionish.