documentary

Meaning

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Of, related to, or based on documents.
2. (not-comparable) Which serves to document (record or illustrate) a subject.
3. (not-comparable) Presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.
2. (uncountable) Such works collectively, as a genre.

Synonyms

documentary film

docudrama

documental

objective

infotainment

news

📰

document

reportage

topic

topicality

docu

subtitler

feature

Translations

documental

documentaire

documentario

documental

documentário

documentaire

Dokumentation

documental

belgesel

Dokumentarfilm

documentair

urkundlich

documentato

documentari

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌdɒk.jʊˈmɛn.tɹi/

Etymology

From French adjective and (hence) noun documentaire, from document, from Latin documentum. Equivalent to document + -ary.

Sentences

She also participated in the filming of the documentary " Spell your name ".

Van Zandt and Schechter also struggled to get the documentary seen .