List of autological words

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A word is autological or homological if it truly describes itself (see Grelling-Nelson paradox). Since adjectives are words that are designed to describe things, including words, most autological words are adjectives. 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.)

Contents 1 Adjectives 1.1 Depending on context 2 Nouns 2.1 Depending on context 3 Other parts of speech 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Adjectives

• Polysyllabic
• Pentasyllabic
• Adjectival
• Descriptive
• Complete
• Sesquipedalian
• Mellifluous
• Suave
• Wee
• Brief
• Terse
• Unhyphenated
• Hyphen-using
• 6-letter
• 7-letter'd
• 8-lettered
• Ten-letter'd
• Twelve-letter
• Fourteen-letter
• Fifteen-lettered
• Sextadecaliteral
• Seventeen-lettered
• Common
• Simple
• Multisyllabic
• English
• Used
• Inanimate
• Magniloquent
• Grandiloquent
• Uncorrect

[edit] 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)
• Camouflaged (when camouflaged)
• Editable (in a wiki-based online encyclopedia)
• English (and its equivalent in other languages, such as "Español", when referring to the language)
• Ink (when written in ink)
• Legible (often)
• Linking (in an online encyclopedia)
• Listed (In the present context)
• Mentioned (In the present context)
• Neologism (originally)
• Obscurantist (when used to describe long, intelligent-sounding language; obfuscatory)
• Olden (at present)
• Pronounceable (for many people)
• Redundant, when placed preceding tautologies
• Self-referential (when applied to itself)
• Slang (originally)
• Spoken/Written etc. (when spoken/written etc.)
• Unsung/Unwritten etc. (when not sung/written etc.)
• Typed (In the present context)
• Uninformative
• Superfluous
• Fricative
• Sibilant (when spoken by somebody without a lisp or other sibilant-affecting speech impediment)
• Antepenultimate (In the present context)
• Penultimate (In the present context)
• Final (In the present context)

[edit] Nouns

• Loan translation
• Mondegreen
• Nihilartikel
• Noun
• Spondee
• Thing
• Trochee
• Word
• Letters

[edit] Depending on context

• Antonym (when discussing the word synonym)
• e-text (when stored in an electronic format)
• Example (in present context)
• Hyperlink (when it appears as a hyperlink)
• Igpay Atinlay
• 1337sp34k
• List item, when it is an item in a list
• Name
• Spelling
• the name of any typeface (when written in that typeface)
• Film (actually not autological as a word, but it is as a name)
• Symbol (when used in the Peircian sense)

[edit] Other parts of speech

• Verbify ^{(see talk page)}
• Exist
• Adverbially
• TLA

The word "autological" may be taken, without contradiction, to be either autological or heterological.

[edit] See also

• self-reference
• Grelling-Nelson paradox
• concrete poetry

[edit] External links

• List of autological words and discussion