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/ˌænəkdˈoʊtəl/ /ˌænɪkdˈoʊtəl/ Listen

Anecdotal

adjective

Having the character of an anecdote.

Characterized by or given to telling anecdotes. Synonyms: anecdotic, anecdotical. "An anecdotal history of jazz" , "He was at his anecdotic best"

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"Anecdotal" Quotes from Famous Books

... talk naturally varied in character from that of the billiard-room. The latter was likely to be anecdotal and personal; the former was more often philosophical and commentative, ranging through a great variety of subjects scientific, political, sociological, and religious. His talk was often of infinity—the forces of creation—and ...

— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine

... big. Interestingly, though the mainstream culture has tended to think of hackers as incorrigible junk-food junkies, many have at least mildly health-foodist attitudes and are fairly discriminating about what they eat. This may be generational; anecdotal evidence suggests that the stereotype was more on the mark before the ...

— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0

... LANGFORD, "Vigilante Days and Ways," 1893. A storehouse of information done in graphic anecdotal fashion of the scenes in the early mining camps of Idaho and Montana. Valuable as the work of a contemporary writer who took part in the scenes ...

— The Passing of the Frontier - A Chronicle of the Old West, Volume 26 in The Chronicles - Of America Series • Emerson Hough

... foible of mine, I confess, it affords an opportunity for an extra lesson on the noble art of handling the ribbons, and at the same time puts you in possession of all the topographical, descriptive, and anecdotal matter relative to the resident gentry and ...

— The English Spy • Bernard Blackmantle

... than this was never given to a youth; and to enforce it, we present in this volume the life and character of the great man who so lovingly tendered it. By employing the colloquial style, anecdotal illustration, and thrilling incident, the author hopes more successfully to ...

— From Farm House to the White House • William M. Thayer

Words linked to "Anecdotal" : communicatory, anecdotic, anecdote, communicative, anecdotical