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LIST OF AUTOLOGICAL WORDS
A word is autological or homological if it truly describes itself (see Grelling-Nelson paradox). Most autological words are adjectives (since they describe words, which are things). Nouns and verbs can also be self-descriptive, though not in the same way that adjectives are. Phrases may also be autological, e.g., "three words long" is three words long.
(A word which is not autological is heterological, except the word "heterological", which is neither.)
Adjectives
Always
- Polysyllabic
- Pentasyllabic
- Adjectival
- Awkwardnessful
- Dactylic
- Descriptive (disputable)
- Good (disputable)
- Confusionful
- Complexified
- Obfuscatory
- Sesquipedalian
- Mispelled [sic], misspeled, mispeled, mxisspelled, etc.
- Mellifluous
- Wee
- Neologitudinal
- Tiny
- Short
- Little
- Brief
- Terse
- Unhyphenated
- Hyphen-using
- Hyper-extended
- Ten-letter'd
- Twelve-letter
- Fourteen-letter
- Fifteen-lettered
- Seventeen-lettered
- Sextadecaliteral
- Non-human
- Useful
- Common
- Multisyllabic
- Incomplet
Depending on context
- Initial (In the present context)
- Second (In the present context) (etc.)
- Autological (can be treated as autological or not, indifferently)
- Black (and other colours, when the word is printed in those colours)
- English (and its equivalent in other languages, such as "Español", when referring to the language)
- Legible (often)
- Listed (In the present context)
- Mentioned (In the present context)
- Neologism (formerly)
- Olden (at present)
- Pronounceable (for many people)
- Self-referential (when applied to itself)
- Slang (originally)
- Spoken (when spoken)
- Typed (In the present context)
- Uninformative
- Unsung (when not sung)
- Antepenultimate (In the present context)
- Penultimate (In the present context)
- Final (In the present context)
Nouns
Always
Depending on context
Other parts of speech
The word "autological" and its synonym "blardy" may be taken, without contradiction, to be either autological or heterological.
See also
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