offscreen
Speech parts
1. offscreen - Adjective
2. offscreen - Adverb
Meaning
offscreen (not comparable)
Existing or happening outside the frame of the cinema or television screen
offscreen (not comparable)
Outside the frame of the cinema or television screen
Antonyms
Examples
Are you relieved that went the obvious route and sent Anna Faris’ Christy off to law school, versus having her relapse/suffer a grim offscreen fate a la Roseanne Conner?
Both Gable and Monroe are offscreen, and Wallach's heartbreak is indicated by his dropping the rose bouquet he had brought for her.
Its text and its identification as Ezekiel 25:17 derive from an almost identical creed that appears at the beginning of the Chiba movie Karate Kiba (The Bodyguard; 1976), where it is both shown as a scrolling text and read by an offscreen narrator.
Forney (who saw her go into the store at closing time) jumps through a plate-glass window and helps deliver her baby offscreen.
However, in the film, Maggio's abuse happens offscreen and is told only verbally to Prewitt, who remains free.
The performance — iconic in its headbanging, its use of gnomes, its televised angst, and its Mos Def video bomb — was also notable for how it began: with offscreen screams of “Free Earl!”