A linguistic adjective that implies a word is self-descriptive. An example of an autological word is polysyllabic, since it contains five syllables. Another good example is wee, because it is such a short little word. Interestingly, the word 'autological' is autological, provided you know what the words auto- and logical mean.

The opposite of autological is heterological. See meta-.

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