screen-worthyadj.
/ˈskriːnwəːði/, U.S. /ˈskrinˌwərði/ Worthy of being shown or broadcast on a screen; worthy of being made into or featured in a film or television programme.
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1928 Daily Tel. 12 June 10 Her brief meteoric career needed no fantastic embellishments to make her story screenworthy.
1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 May 582/2 Though the screen-play for The Tin Drum was ‘revised and augmented’ by Günter Grass, Volker Schlöndorff's success has relatively little to do with making phrases screenworthy.
2006 Guardian 30 Sept. (Guide Suppl.) Central Listings 5/1 Barely screen-worthy kids' movie about a gang of well-spoken British child-thieves in Venice.
Derivatives
ˈscreen-worthiness n.
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1928 Daily Express 7 May 9/2 The production..has been booked by Provincial Cinematograph Theatres, a booking generally regarded throughout the world as the hallmark of screen-worthiness.
1941 Motion Picture Herald 11 Oct. 36/1 Hal Roach's third streamlined feature surpasses his second in screen worthiness.
2004 T. J. Walsh in G. Gewirtz & J. J. Kolb Art, Glitter & Glitz i. xii. 110 The main issue concerned managers making decisions concerning the viability of plays..based not on their stage-worthiness but rather on their screen-worthiness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1928