celluloid

  • (s) artificial as if portrayed in a film
    • a novel with flat celluloid characters
    synthetic,

Nouns

  • (n) highly flammable substance made from cellulose nitrate and camphor; used in e.g. motion-picture and X-ray film; its use has decreased with the development of nonflammable thermoplastics
  • (n) a medium that disseminates moving pictures
    • theater pieces transferred to celluloid
    • this story would be good cinema
    • film coverage of sporting events
    cinema, film,

Synonyms

synthetic cinema film

Words of close approximity

cellulose