'Documentary' definitions:
Definition of 'documentary'
From: WordNet
adjective
Relating to or consisting of or derived from documents [syn: documentary, documental]
adjective
Emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation; "objective art" [syn: objective, documentary]
noun
A film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event [syn: documentary, docudrama, documentary film, infotainment]
Definition of 'Documentary'
From: GCIDE
- Documentary \Doc`u*men"ta*ry\, a. Pertaining to written evidence; contained or certified in writing. "Documentary evidence." --Macaulay. DoD
Synonyms of 'documentary'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 3-D,
- absolute,
- actual,
- adducible,
- admissible,
- animated cartoon,
- archival,
- ascertained,
- attestative,
- attested,
- attestive,
- authentic,
- authenticated,
- based on,
- black-and-white film,
- cartoon,
- categorically true,
- certain,
- certified,
- chiller,
- cinema,
- Cinemascope,
- Cinerama,
- circumstantial,
- color film,
- conclusive,
- confirmed,
- convincing,
- corroborated,
- creepie,
- cumulative,
- damning,
- decisive,
- demonstrated,
- determinative,
- determined,
- documental,
- documentary film,
- documentational,
- documented,
- educational film,
- effectual,
- epigraphic,
- established,
- evidential,
- evidentiary,
- ex parte,
- eye-witness,
- factual,
- feature,
- film,
- final,
- firsthand,
- flick,
- flicker,
- founded on,
- grounded on,
- hearsay,
- historical,
- horror picture,
- horse opera,
- implicit,
- incontrovertible,
- indicative,
- indisputable,
- irrefutable,
- irresistible,
- material,
- motion picture,
- motion-picture show,
- movie,
- moving picture,
- necrological,
- newsreel,
- not in error,
- nudie,
- nuncupative,
- obituary,
- objectively true,
- overwhelming,
- photodrama,
- photoplay,
- picture,
- picture show,
- pornographic film,
- presumptive,
- preview,
- probative,
- proved,
- real,
- reliable,
- short,
- significant,
- silent,
- silent film,
- skin flick,
- sneak preview,
- spaghetti Western,
- substantiated,
- suggestive,
- sure,
- sure-enough,
- symptomatic,
- talkie,
- talking picture,
- Technicolor,
- telling,
- testimonial,
- thriller,
- trailer,
- true,
- true as gospel,
- truthful,
- unconfuted,
- undenied,
- underground film,
- undoubted,
- unerroneous,
- unfallacious,
- unfalse,
- unmistaken,
- unquestionable,
- unrefuted,
- valid,
- validated,
- veracious,
- verified,
- veritable,
- weighty,
- Western