- of or concerned with one's own life
- of or relating to an autobiography
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
au•to•bi•o•graph•i•cal /ˌɔtəbaɪəˈgræfɪkəl/USA pronunciation adj.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- of or relating to books or a history of a person's life as told or written by that person.
au•to•bi•o•graph•i•cal
(ô′tə bī′ə graf′i kəl, ô′tō-),USA pronunciation adj.
au′to•bi′o•graph′i•cal•ly, adv.
- Literaturemarked by or dealing with one's own experiences or life history;
of or in the manner of an autobiography:autobiographical material; an autobiographical novel.Also, au′to•bi′o•graph′ic.
- auto-1 + biographical 1820–30
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autobiographical /ˌɔːtəˌbaɪəˈɡræfɪkəl/, autobiographic /ˈɔːtəʊˌbaɪəʊˈɡræfɪk/ adj
'autobiographical' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Agee
- Angelou
- Bogarde
- Butler
- Cernuda
- ghostwrite
- Gorki
- Gosse
- Greene
- Hellman
- Hudson
- Kristeva
- Lamb
- Lee
- Mandelstam
- memoirs
- Niven
- Sassoon
- Schreiner
- Singer
- Sitwell
- Thompson
- Wolfe
- Confessions of an English Opium Eater
- Life on the Mississippi
- semiautobiographical