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sci-fi

nounadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//saɪ.faɪ//

A genre of movies featuring mostly fictional scientific scenes.

noun

  1. 1

    A genre of movies featuring mostly fictional scientific scenes.

    I'm the kind of sci-fi addict who can stand any amount of improbability, bad acting, uninterested direction and poverty-row budgets, but can't take The Mind of Mr. Soames.

    Several sci-fi films and novels have very accurately predicted and paved the way for many of the pieces of technology we enjoy today.

  2. 2

    Syllabic abbreviation of science fiction.

Etymology

Clipping of science fiction.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or pertaining to such a genre.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).