as in fictional
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
Example Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
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
Chris Lee, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nondocumentary
Adjective
-
Ready to swap the real-world drama for a fictional web of secrets and lies?—
Andrea Bartz,
People.com,
18 May 2025
-
The movie takes place in May 2020 and is set in a small fictional town in New Mexico, where the local sheriff Joe Cross (Phoenix) decides to run against the charismatic and COVID-conscious mayor Ted Garcia (Pascal).—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2025
Adjective
-
The Scheme To carry out the fraud scheme, the defendants and their co-conspirators created fictitious employers and lists of alleged employees—those lists were generated using personally identifiable information (PII) gleaned from thousands of identity theft victims.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
-
When Noah Wyle reunited with ER producers John Wells and R. Scott Gemmill to make HBO Max’s The Pitt, the plan was to offer a realistic portrayal of healthcare today through the lens of harried pros working in a fictitious Pittsburgh hospital.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
20 May 2025
Adjective
-
Health has been viewed primarily as a function of hypothetical future costs in wealth planning.—
Joseph Coughlin,
Forbes.com,
19 May 2025
-
The debate over Rose’s place in Cooperstown is now more than a hypothetical.—
C. Trent Rosecrans,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
Adjective
-
Based on the second-longest investigation in Swedish history, this is a fictionalized account of the 2004 double murder of a small boy and a 50-year-old woman in the small town of Linkoping.—
Andrea Duncan-Mao,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2025
-
This is intertwined with fictionalized scenes of Du Bois’s final years working on the project in the newly independent African nation.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
-
For stock market investors, the equity risk premium is the theoretical excess return of stocks over risk-free assets to account for market risk.—
,
CNBC,
19 May 2025
-
Think of the 60 plus percentage rates advertised in the press as the ceiling or the theoretical maximum reimbursement rates.—
Shivaram Rajgopal,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2025
Adjective
-
Biden's attorney jumped in to clarify that Hur's team had asked a speculative question that did not reflect Biden's initial answer.—
Sarah D. Wire,
USA Today,
18 May 2025
-
Any financial instruments mentioned herein are speculative in nature and may involve risk to principal and interest.—
Katie Stockton,
CNBC,
12 May 2025
Adjective
-
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
-
Well, certainly the most unhistorical.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Aug. 2022
Cite this Entry
“Nondocumentary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nondocumentary. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share