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biographical

[ bahy-uh-graf-i-kuhl ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to a person's life:

    He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.

  2. pertaining to or containing biography:

    a biographical dictionary.



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Other Words From

  • bi·o·graph·i·cal·ly adverb
  • non·bi·o·graph·i·cal adjective
  • non·bi·o·graph·i·cal·ly adverb
  • pseu·do·bi·o·graph·ic adjective
  • pseu·do·bi·o·graph·i·cal adjective
  • pseu·do·bi·o·graph·i·cal·ly adverb
  • qua·si-bi·o·graph·i·cal adjective
  • qua·si-bi·o·graph·i·cal·ly adverb
  • sem·i·bi·o·graph·ic adjective
  • sem·i·bi·o·graph·i·cal adjective
  • sem·i·bi·o·graph·i·cal·ly adverb
  • un·bi·o·graph·i·cal adjective
  • un·bi·o·graph·i·cal·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of biographical1

First recorded in 1730–40; biograph(y) + -ical

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Example Sentences

You have focused on individual events and ideas in your books about Lincoln rather than the cradle-to-grave biographical approach.

“Reagan is a difficult biographical subject,” Darman acknowledged when I interviewed him recently.

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.

In the biographical memoir of La Bruyre, I have only stated what is known of him, which is very little.

All these measures were important and were carefully drawn; but their merits cannot be explained in a biographical notice.

His principal work is a Biographical Dictionary, of which several editions were printed.

Lewes's Biographical History of Philosophy has the merit of clearness, and is very interesting, but rather superficial.

The biographical details of this period of Chopin's life have to be drawn almost wholly from his letters.

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