off-screenTranslate off-screen | into Italian Definition of off-screen adjective not appearing on a cinema, television, or computer screen:he drawls to an off-screen interrogator [attributive] happening in reality rather than fictionally on-screen:they were off-screen lovers adverb outside what can be seen on a television or cinema screen:the girl is looking off-screen to the right in real life rather than fictionally in a film or on television:happy endings rarely happen off-screenoff-screen in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of off-screen in the US English dictionary