The narrative provided some eye-opening social commentary on the state of the country.
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Commentary
//ˈkɒm.ən.t(ə.)ɹi//
Synonyms for "commentary" (53 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (16)
Related words (26)
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1 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesderived
13 entriesderived from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesrelated to
6 entriesTranslations
55 translations across 25 languages.
Ancient Greek
3 entries- παρεκβολή noun (A series of comments or annotations)
- σχόλια noun (A series of comments or annotations)
- ὑπόμνημα noun (A series of comments or annotations)
Armenian
1 entries- մեկնաբանություն noun (A series of comments or annotations)
Basque
3 entries- azalpen noun (A series of comments or annotations)
- iruzkin noun (A series of comments or annotations)
- zeresan noun (A series of comments or annotations)
Bulgarian
2 entries- коментар noun (A series of comments or annotations)
- репортаж noun (A brief account of transactions or events written hastily)
Catalan
2 entries- comentari noun (A series of comments or annotations)
- comentari noun (A brief account of transactions or events written hastily)
Dutch
2 entries- commentaar noun (An oral description of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs)
- voice-over noun (An oral description of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs)
Esperanto
1 entries- komentaro noun (A series of comments or annotations)
Finnish
3 entries- kommentaari noun (A series of comments or annotations)
- kommentaari noun (A brief account of transactions or events written hastily)
- selostus noun (An oral description of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs)
Galician
1 entries- comentario noun (A series of comments or annotations)
German
1 entries- Kommentar noun (A series of comments or annotations)
Greek
2 entries- σχολιασμός noun (An oral description of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs)
- σχόλια noun (A series of comments or annotations)
Hebrew
3 entries- דיווח noun (An oral description of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs)
- הערות noun (A brief account of transactions or events written hastily)
- פירוש noun (A series of comments or annotations)
Hindi
4 entries- निर्वचन noun (A series of comments or annotations)
- विवरण noun (A series of comments or annotations)
- व्याख्या noun (A series of comments or annotations)
- व्याख्या noun (An oral description of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs)
Hungarian
1 entries- kommentár noun (A series of comments or annotations)
Indonesian
2 entries- komentar noun (A series of comments or annotations)
- ulasan noun (A series of comments or annotations)
Kazakh
1 entries- түсініктеме noun (A series of comments or annotations)
Latin
2 entries- comentārium noun (A series of comments or annotations)
- commentārium noun (A series of comments or annotations)
Marathi
1 entries- कॉमेंटरी noun (An oral description of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs)
Northern Kurdish
4 entries- komentar noun (A series of comments or annotations)
- ravek noun (A series of comments or annotations)
- ravekirin noun (A series of comments or annotations)
- ronkirin noun (A series of comments or annotations)
Polish
1 entries- komentarz noun (A series of comments or annotations)
Portuguese
1 entries- comentário noun (A series of comments or annotations)
Russian
3 entries- аннота́ция noun (A series of comments or annotations)
- коммента́рий noun (A series of comments or annotations)
- репорта́ж noun (An oral description of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- iomradh noun (A series of comments or annotations)
- iomradh noun (A brief account of transactions or events written hastily)
Spanish
3 entries- comentario noun (A series of comments or annotations)
- comentarios noun (An oral description of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs)
- comentarismo noun (An oral description of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs)
Telugu
2 entries- వ్యాఖ్యానము noun (A series of comments or annotations)
- వ్యాఖ్యానము noun (An oral description of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
What a sad commentary!
Source: tatoeba (4495386)
People sometimes narrate their actions to themselves as a running commentary.
Source: tatoeba (5269009)
Who needs commentary?
Source: tatoeba (5752201)
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