unsubtitled

Lacking text overlay

Unsubtitled describes video or film content that lacks subtitles—the text translations or transcriptions that typically appear at the bottom of the screen.

The term usually comes up when subtitles would be expected or helpful: The unsubtitled foreign film frustrated English-speaking viewers.

It can also describe content where subtitles were deliberately omitted or are simply unavailable.

accessibility

inaccessible

Cannot be reached

auditory · barrier · exclusionary

original

unedited

Not yet corrected

unmodified · theatrical · untranslated · import · undubbed · unprocessed · pure · intact · unchanged · unmixed

viewing

arthouse

Venue for noncommercial films

broadcast · international · non-English · multilingual · immersive

Opposites
presence of subtitles

unsubtitledsubtitled

Having translated text overlaid

captioned · closed-captioned · subbed · SDH

language accessibility method

unsubtitledsubtitled

Having translated text overlaid

dubbed · captioned · localized · translated · revoiced

Family

subtitle, subtitled, subtitles, subtitling, title, titled, titles, titling, untitled

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G