autobiographical
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- adjective
- /ˌɔːtəbaɪˈɡræfɪkəl/
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autobiográfico
- Martha spent her final years in Hoddesdon, where in November of 1632 she composed her autobiographical poem.
- autobiographical events
- autobiographical memory
- autobiographical essay
And most of that is, you know, autobiographical or semi autobiographical or supposedly autobiographical.
- And most of that is, you know, autobiographical or semi autobiographical or supposedly autobiographical.
- Well, you talk about the autobiographical part now.
- Well, it's, it's about autobiographical storytelling, obviously, and where it comes from.
- So it's it varies from song to song, like in terms of how like autobiographical it is.
- I mean, I, I, all my movies are strangely autobiographical and they end up lining up with social concerns or not.
- Very different poems, not really autobiographical in impetus, though I guess they do touch on my life in certain oblique ways.
- And actually he's a biographer or the person who Co wrote his quasi autobiographical The Art of the Deal.
Examples
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Do you consider the book to be autobiographical ?
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Despite the controversy, Camus began work on his most lengthy and personal novel yet, an autobiographical work entitled The First Man.
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This is probably the only autobiographical moment in the entire movie.
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I was working on a little autobiographical thing about when I was first married.
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And then in contrast to that, there is now an autobiographical focus.
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Then your story is autobiographical.
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While an exercise of "bad history," the account is successful in so far as it serves its autobiographical purpose.
Academic text (2017) -
One theme that occurs throughout this book is that autobiographical memories are constructed.
Academic text (2015) -
I'm particularly interested in having the performers use personal, autobiographical experiences in the project.
Fiction book (2000) -
Many public radio listeners first knew him for his comic autobiographical stories on This American Life.
Synonyms
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About the facts and events of a person's life
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About a person's own life and experiences
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About a person's life that someone writes as a story
How Personal
Surface Forms
Morphology
autobiographical = autobiography (transparent) = autobiograph + ical
Formed by adding the adjectival suffix '-ical' to the stem of 'autobiography' (orthographic adjustment from -y to -ic-), and the adjective directly relates to the noun.
Etymology
The word autobiographical comes from three parts: auto- meaning 'self', bio- meaning 'life', and graph meaning 'write'. So, something autobiographical is a book or story where the author writes about their own life.