closed-captioned

[klohzd-kap-shuhnd]

adjective

1. (of a television program, film, or video) distributed with synchronized transcription or translation of speech and written descriptions of other relevant audio elements, as for the hard of hearing, that are visible only when the option to display them is selected. CC

closed-captioned

adjective

1. (of a video recording) having subtitles which appear on screen only if the cassette is played through a special decoder

Other Word Forms

• closed captioning noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of closed-captioned¹

First recorded in 1975–80

Example Sentences

The only source of light comes from the television, which continues to play the closed-captioned Star Wars marathon we started earlier.

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I’m squeezed onto a wooden bench with my colleagues watching something only a few Americans have actually seen: the closed-captioned video feed of Trump’s criminal trial.

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Their expressive interpretations, experts say, are much cleaner and clearer to understand than closed-captioned subtitles, which are often computer generated and thus may be incorrect.

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“I don’t want to be sitting around watching closed-captioned TV,” he said.

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In a post ricocheting around Twitter yesterday, @DashRomero put up four closed-captioned stills of a video interview given by the rapper couple Papoose and Remy Ma.

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