Associations to the word «Documentary»

Wiktionary

DOCUMENTARY, adjective. Of, related to, or based on documents.
DOCUMENTARY, adjective. Which serves to document (record and:or illustrate) a subject.
DOCUMENTARY, adjective. (of a film, book etc) presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter.
DOCUMENTARY, noun. A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.

Dictionary definition

DOCUMENTARY, noun. A film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event.
DOCUMENTARY, adjective. Relating to or consisting of or derived from documents.
DOCUMENTARY, adjective. Emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation; "objective art".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky