NONDOCUMENTARY Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

nondocumentary

adjective

Definition of nondocumentary

as in fictional

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Recent Examples of nondocumentary The seventh nondocumentary feature by Wright made its way to theaters on October 29, after having been delayed twice by distributor Focus Features over pandemic concerns. — Chris Lee, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2021

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Adjective

The first season was filmed in Wales and set in the fictional North Wales village of Morfa Halen.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 26 Aug. 2026
This is where the creation of the aforementioned fictional Barrow’s Green came about, which eventually came to life in the form of The Six Bells Inn.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of fictional

Adjective

The undercover analyst noted in a message that his fictitious 4-year-old brother would be home the next day, when the Perez meeting was expected.

— Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Aug. 2026
Final testing relied on fictitious data instead of the real records of millions of residents.

— Komal Goyal, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of fictitious

Adjective

Then, in a famous 1937 paper, the mathematician Alan Turing devised a model based on hypothetical machines that could read and write symbols printed on an infinite tape according to a set of simple rules.

— Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2026
Shirley said the bill set a bad precedent, giving a hypothetical scenario of someone hiring a third party to commit violence in order to pin the blame on him.

— Mackenzie Chase, The Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of hypothetical

Adjective

McConaughey and Harrelson are quick to emphasize that while the characters have their names, the series is very much a fictionalized version of their story.

— Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 24 Aug. 2026
The Emmy-winning Apple TV series, starring Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston, gives viewers an inside look into a fictionalized world of morning television.

— Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of fictionalized

Adjective

David Sloan is a theoretical physicist at Lancaster University and the Chief Scientific Officer of the Foundational Questions Institute.

— Big Think, Big Think, 28 Aug. 2026
Far from being a theoretical threat, at least one active attack is already exploiting the mixup.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of theoretical

Adjective

Unitree’s recent slump has raised concerns about how Beijing may boost emerging strategic sectors without stoking a speculative frenzy.

— Anniek Bao,Elaine Yu, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
The premise places the film inside a debate that has moved rapidly from speculative fiction into everyday working life, but Lien’s approach leans away from techno-thriller territory.

— Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of speculative

Adjective

In the 21st century, however, historians mistook the code word for a code name and gave the pretexts their unhistorical handle.

— Ken Hughes, The Conversation, 24 Nov. 2025
Saying that ending our 43-year involvement [with] the EU is somehow going to fundamentally change this deep relationship between our two countries is completely unhistorical.

— Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2016

Definition of unhistorical

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