Meanings
comparative more unfilmable · superlative most unfilmable
- Not suitable or able to be filmed.
But Benioff, Weiss, and their collaborator Alexander Woo have undoubtedly proved yet again that there is no such thing as an unfilmable novel.
2024 March 21, Lucy Mangan, “3 Body Problem review – the creators of Game of Thrones have done it again”, in The Guardian, →ISSN1 more example
The dense, bleak, multilayered graphic novel was declared unfilmable first by its writer Alan Moore and then by 12 Monkeys director Terry Gilliam, who was the first man to try and fail.
2009 February 22, James Wigney, “No more Mr Nice Guy”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2009
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishfilmable
- Englishunfilmable
Translations
Finnish mahdoton kuvata
- mahdoton kuvataTranslations
French infilmable
- infilmableTranslations
Polish niefilmowalny
- niefilmowalnyTranslations
Cite this entry
unfilmable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfilmable
“unfilmable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfilmable. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unfilmable,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfilmable.
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