documentary

Plural

documentaries

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.Of, related to, or based on documents.

2. 2.Which serves to document (record or illustrate) a subject.

3. 3.Presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter.

   • Just as there is a tradition of history painting, so there is one of history photographs, which of course are not documentary. They're posed as the world was supposed to be.

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.

   • Fifteen documentaries are in sharp-elbowed competition to be among the five Oscar nominees.

2. 2.Such works collectively, as a genre.

   • Such sequences draw attention to the affective appeals that environmental documentary typically makes, precisely by absenting those appeals.

Overall

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By learning goal

Everyday conversation

Rare

General reading & writing

Uncommon

Academic

Rare

Literature

Rare

Word family

• document