biographical
or bi·o·graph·ic
[bahy-uh-graf-i-kuh l or bahy-uh-graf-ik]
- of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
- pertaining to or containing biography: a biographical dictionary.
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Origin of biographical
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018
Examples from the Web for biographical
Contemporary Examples
Paulkovich has written nothing about himself—we have no biographical data on him.
But the biographical inattention to his voluminous body of written work nonetheless has been a strange oversight.
His method, throughout the book, is biographical, not historical.
Biographical details have been changed to protect his identity.
Even when the biographical subject has been dead for decades.
Historical Examples
Reads like a biographical incident in some hunt of Xenophon, boy or father.
CyropaediaXenophon
This is not in any sense a biographical sketch of Robert Owen.
SocialismJohn Spargo
Both are in quarto, and are biographical as well as bibliographical.
The Book-Hunter at HomeP. B. M. Allan
The biographical circumstances will not, of course, be forgotten.
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles DickensG. K. Chesterton
You may hunt for it in vain among the biographical dictionaries.
The Book-HunterJohn Hill Burton
Word Origin and History for biographical
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper