autobiographical

Also au·to·bi·o·graph·ic

[aw-tuh-bahy-uh-graf-i-kuhl, aw-toh-]

adjective

1. marked by or dealing with one's own experiences or life history; of or in the manner of an autobiography: an autobiographical novel.

   autobiographical material;

   an autobiographical novel.

autobiographical

/ ˌɔːtəˌbaɪəˈɡræfɪkəl /

adjective

1. of or concerned with one's own life

2. of or relating to an autobiography

Other Word Forms

• autobiographically adverb
• nonautobiographical adjective
• nonautobiographically adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of autobiographical¹

First recorded in 1820–30; auto- ¹ + biographical

Example Sentences

Stoppard maintained that it wasn’t autobiographical at the time he wrote it—though later it became public that he had had an affair with Felicity Kendal, who had starred in a few of his plays.

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In an autobiographical summary of his career, Meyer said his favorite toy design was Lite-Brite, which allows people to create colorful designs by plugging plastic pegs into a grid.

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The novel relates the partly autobiographical story of Charley Klein, who is raised in community housing in the Bronx, N.Y., in the 1930s by an overworked mother and a resentful, invalid father.

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That sense of humanity has always been at the core of Cave's work and his music with The Bad Seeds is "essentially autobiographical".

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A new study suggests that briefly changing the way people see their own bodies can make it easier to recall autobiographical memories, including some from early childhood.

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