BIOGRAPHICAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does biographical mean? 

• BIOGRAPHICAL (adjective)
  The adjective BIOGRAPHICAL has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or being biography

  Familiarity information: BIOGRAPHICAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIOGRAPHICAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or being biography

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

biographic; biographical

Context example:

biographical data

Pertainym:

biography (an account of the series of events making up a person's life)

Derivation:

biography (an account of the series of events making up a person's life)

 Context examples 

He had declined to give any biographical data to his publishers, but the newspapers were not to be denied.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And then, without rhyme or reason, all sceptical, my mind flew back to a small biographical note in the red-bound Who’s Who, and I said to myself, She was born in Cambridge, and she is twenty-seven years old.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Please send by return mail his photograph and biographical data.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)