on-screen

[on-skreen, awn-]

adjective

1. occurring within a motion picture or television show or in an actor's professional life.

   a raucous on-screen personality that was at odds with his quiet private life.

2. displayed on a television screen; supplied by means of television.

   an on-screen course in economics.

adverb

1. in a motion picture or television program or in one's professional life.

   On-screen he's a villain.

Word History and Origins

Origin of on-screen¹

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

He’s closer to the verbal creature in Shelley’s novel than the moaning depictions on-screen.

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Young’s clinics request that clients be on-screen for therapy sessions and pass frequent drug tests, Cohen said.

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Fast & Furious movies are among the most difficult that Hollywood makes, because of the action on-screen and the drama off-screen.

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The deal marks a sharp turn for the legacy network — and an ascent for Weiss, who built her reputation as a polarizing opinion writer before launching The Free Press in 2021, where a recent essay hailed the AI “actress” Tilly Norwood as “one of your better chances” to see a virgin on-screen.

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The anchor reportedly bulldozed over his on-screen colleagues to smear Coates’ dispatches from Palestine as something that “would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist,” before accusing the author, baselessly, of being “offended” by the idea of Israel and not by its documented actions.

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