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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

A biographical note in the book even calls Fox “one of the foremost explanatory writers and literary stylists in American journalism.”

This struck me as an interesting premise for a story about his life, something which adds a layer to the biographical account of his life.

Kron also wrote the biographical “Well,” a family memoir centered on the relationship of mothers and daughters, and wellness.

Richards brought neurobiological perspectives to an understanding of our literary mind in an era when historical and biographical criticism was the norm, and the teaching of literature remained based on grammar and rhetoric.

Modi’s campaign for prime minister in 2014, which relied heavily on the biographical narrative of his journey from a lowly tea-seller to the highest levels of politics, resonated with this expanding class of the upwardly mobile.

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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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