DOCUMENTARY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event

Synonyms:

docudrama; documentary; documentary film; infotainment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("documentary" is a kind of...):

film; flick; motion-picture show; motion picture; movie; moving-picture show; moving picture; pic; picture; picture show (a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement)

Derivation:

document (record in detail)

documentary ((of film, television, radio, or photography) depicting a real-life event using images or interviews with people involved in the event)

Meaning:

(of film, television, radio, or photography) depicting a real-life event using images or interviews with people involved in the event

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

existent; real (being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory)

Derivation:

documentary (a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event)

Meaning:

Relating to or consisting of or derived from documents

Synonyms:

documental; documentary

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

document (writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature))

Derivation:

document (anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks)

document (writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature))

document ((computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters)

document (a written account of ownership or obligation)