Documentary
Documentary adjective - Restricted to or based on fact.
Usage example: a documentary film about the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor
Exaggerated is an antonym for documentary.
Exaggerated
Exaggerated adjective - Extended beyond normal or realistic bounds.
Documentary is an antonym for exaggerated.
Both words in one sentence
- Exaggerated for satire in Metal Gear Solid 4, where an in-universe nature documentary about octopuses (Ocean of Gossip) has two news crawls that bounce all over the footage, all showing batshit insane weird news, mostly to do with horrific civilian militarism.
Source: Crawl
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