I don't watch a lot of movies, but I can't resist a good documentary.
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Documentary
//ˌdɒk.jʊˈmɛn.tɹi//
Synonyms for "documentary" (139 found)
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Closest matches (28)
Strong matches (42)
Related words (69)
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More general
10 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesdbpedia genre
1 entriesderived
41 entriesShowing 16 of 41 words.
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3 entriesrelated to
11 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
159 translations across 65 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- dokkie noun (programme or publication of fact)
- dokumentêr noun (programme or publication of fact)
Albanian
1 entries- film dokumentar noun (documentary film)
Arabic
4 entries- مُوَثَّق adj (presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter)
- وَثَائِقِيّ adj (of, related to or based on documents/that serves to document something)
- شَرِيطٌ وَثَائِقِيّ noun (programme or publication of fact)
- فيلم وثائقي noun (documentary film)
Armenian
3 entries- վավերագրական adj (presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter)
- վավերագրական կինոնկար noun (programme or publication of fact)
- վավերագրական կինոնկար noun (documentary film)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- sənədli adj (presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter)
- sənədli film noun (documentary film)
Belarusian
2 entries- дакумента́льны adj (of, related to or based on documents/that serves to document something)
- дакумента́льны фільм noun (documentary film)
Bengali
1 entries- প্রামাণ্য চলচ্চিত্র noun (documentary film)
Bulgarian
2 entries- документа́лен adj (of, related to or based on documents/that serves to document something)
- документа́лен филм noun (documentary film)
Catalan
3 entries- documental adj (of, related to or based on documents/that serves to document something)
- documental noun (programme or publication of fact)
- documental noun (documentary film)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 紀錄片 /纪录片 noun (programme or publication of fact)
- 紀錄片 /纪录片 noun (documentary film)
- 記錄片 /记录片 noun (documentary film)
Corsican
2 entries- documentariu noun (documentary film)
- ducumentariu noun (documentary film)
Czech
3 entries- dokumentární adj (presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter)
- dokument noun (programme or publication of fact)
- dokumentární film noun (documentary film)
Danish
1 entries- dokumentarfilm noun (documentary film)
Dutch
4 entries- documentair adj (of, related to or based on documents/that serves to document something)
- docu noun (programme or publication of fact)
- documentaire noun (programme or publication of fact)
- documentaire noun (documentary film)
Esperanto
1 entries- dokumentfilmo noun (documentary film)
Estonian
4 entries- dokk noun (programme or publication of fact)
- dokumentaalfilm noun (programme or publication of fact)
- dokumentaalfilm noun (documentary film)
- tõsielufilm noun (programme or publication of fact)
Finnish
4 entries- dokumentaarinen adj (of, related to or based on documents/that serves to document something)
- dokumentaarinen adj (presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter)
- dokkari noun (documentary film)
- dokumentaari noun (programme or publication of fact)
French
4 entries- documentaire adj (of, related to or based on documents/that serves to document something)
- documentaire noun (programme or publication of fact)
- documentaire noun (documentary film)
- film documentaire noun (documentary film)
Georgian
3 entries- დოკუმენტური adj (of, related to or based on documents/that serves to document something)
- დოკუმენტური adj (presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter)
- დოკუმენტური ფილმი noun (documentary film)
German
4 entries- Doku noun (programme or publication of fact)
- Dokumentarfilm noun (documentary film)
- Dokumentation noun (programme or publication of fact)
- Dokumentation noun (documentary film)
Greek
1 entries- ντοκιμαντέρ noun (documentary film)
Hebrew
2 entries- תִּעוּדִי adj (presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter)
- צִלוּמֵי תְּעוּדָה noun (documentary film)
Hindi
4 entries- वृत्तचित्र adj (of, related to or based on documents/that serves to document something)
- वृत्तचित्र adj (presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter)
- वृत्तचित्र noun (programme or publication of fact)
- वृत्तचित्र noun (documentary film)
Hungarian
1 entries- dokumentumfilm noun (documentary film)
Icelandic
2 entries- heimilda adj (of, related to or based on documents/that serves to document something)
- heimildamynd noun (documentary film)
Indonesian
2 entries- dokumenter adj (of, related to or based on documents/that serves to document something)
- film dokumenter noun (documentary film)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- فیلْمِ مُسْتَنَد noun (documentary film)
- مُسْتَنَد noun (documentary film)
Irish
3 entries- clár faisnéise noun (programme or publication of fact)
- scannán faisnéise noun (programme or publication of fact)
- scannán faisnéise noun (documentary film)
Italian
2 entries- documentario adj (presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter)
- documentario noun (documentary film)
Japanese
2 entries- ドキュメンタリー noun (documentary film)
- 記録映画 noun (documentary film)
Kazakh
1 entries- деректі фильм noun (documentary film)
Khmer
1 entries- ភាពយន្តឯកសារ noun (documentary film)
Korean
2 entries- 기록영화 noun (documentary film)
- 다큐멘터리 noun (documentary film)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- документ кино noun (documentary film)
Lao
1 entries- ຟິມເອກະສານ noun (documentary film)
Latvian
1 entries- dokumentālā filma noun (documentary film)
Lithuanian
1 entries- dokumentinis kinas noun (documentary film)
Macedonian
2 entries- документа́рен филм noun (documentary film)
- документа́рец noun (documentary film)
Malay
2 entries- dokumentari noun (programme or publication of fact)
- filem dokumentari noun (documentary film)
Mongolian
1 entries- баримтат кино noun (documentary film)
Māori
3 entries- motuhenga noun (programme or publication of fact)
- pakipūmeka noun (programme or publication of fact)
- pakipūmeka noun (documentary film)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- dokumentar noun (programme or publication of fact)
- dokumentar noun (documentary film)
- dokumentarfilm noun (documentary film)
- dokumentarprogram noun (programme or publication of fact)
Norwegian Nynorsk
4 entries- dokumentar noun (programme or publication of fact)
- dokumentar noun (documentary film)
- dokumentarfilm noun (documentary film)
- dokumentarprogram noun (programme or publication of fact)
Occitan
1 entries- documentari noun (programme or publication of fact)
Polish
4 entries- dokumentalny adj (of, related to or based on documents/that serves to document something)
- dokumentarny adj (of, related to or based on documents/that serves to document something)
- dokument noun (documentary film)
- film dokumentalny noun (documentary film)
Portuguese
4 entries- documental adj (of, related to or based on documents/that serves to document something)
- documental adj (presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter)
- documentário noun (programme or publication of fact)
- documentário noun (documentary film)
Romanian
3 entries- documentar adj (of, related to or based on documents/that serves to document something)
- documentar noun (documentary film)
- film documentar noun (documentary film)
Russian
2 entries- документа́льный adj (of, related to or based on documents/that serves to document something)
- документа́льный фильм noun (documentary film)
Scots
2 entries- documentarie noun (documentary film)
- documentarie film noun (documentary film)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- dokumentarni film noun (documentary film)
- документарни филм noun (documentary film)
Slovak
1 entries- dokumentárny film noun (documentary film)
Slovene
1 entries- dokumentarni film noun (documentary film)
Spanish
4 entries- documental adj (of, related to or based on documents/that serves to document something)
- documental adj (presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter)
- documentario adj (of, related to or based on documents/that serves to document something)
- documental noun (programme or publication of fact)
Swedish
4 entries- dokumentarisk adj (of, related to or based on documents/that serves to document something)
- dokumentär adj (presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter)
- dokumentär noun (programme or publication of fact)
- dokumentär noun (documentary film)
Tagalog
3 entries- dokumental noun (programme or publication of fact)
- dokumentaryo noun (programme or publication of fact)
- dokumentaryo noun (documentary film)
Tajik
1 entries- филми мустанад noun (documentary film)
Thai
4 entries- สารคดี adj (of, related to or based on documents/that serves to document something)
- สารคดี adj (presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter)
- ภาพยนตร์สารคดี noun (documentary film)
- สารคดี noun (programme or publication of fact)
Turkish
3 entries- belgesel noun (programme or publication of fact)
- belgesel noun (documentary film)
- belgesel film noun (documentary film)
Ukrainian
2 entries- документа́льний adj (of, related to or based on documents/that serves to document something)
- документа́льний фільм noun (documentary film)
Urdu
2 entries- تَحْرِیری noun (documentary film)
- دَسْتاویزی noun (documentary film)
Uyghur
1 entries- ھۆججەتلىك فىلىم noun (documentary film)
Uzbek
1 entries- hujjatli film noun (documentary film)
Vietnamese
1 entries- phim tài liệu noun (documentary film)
Volapük
1 entries- dokümik adj (of, related to or based on documents/that serves to document something)
West-Frisian
3 entries- dokumintêre noun (programme or publication of fact)
- dokumintêre noun (documentary film)
- dokumintêrefilm noun (documentary film)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
The danger of AIDS came home to me when I saw a documentary film on it last night.
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That documentary about the environmental crisis was a real eye-opener.
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The documentary was narrated by Morgan Freeman.
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