Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, characterized by, or full of anecdotes.
- adj. Based on casual observations or indications rather than rigorous or scientific analysis: "There are anecdotal reports of children poisoned by hot dogs roasted over a fire of the [oleander] stems” ( C. Claiborne Ray).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or consisting of anecdotes.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of the nature of or relating to an anecdote.
- adj. Containing or abounding in anecdotes.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having the character of an anecdote
- adj. characterized by or given to telling anecdotes
Etymologies
- anecdote + -al (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The court paperwork also claimed, based on what it called anecdotal accounts, shoppers no longer wanted to come to the mall, and the clientele that had stayed had caused more crime.”
“This is all what we call anecdotal -- we don't have large numbers to substantiate this, but we think that there may be a potential for patients to get out of the hospital sooner.”
“I thought this was a new low in anecdotal reporting from the Times.”
Fighting on facebook « Beki's Blog (there's an original name)
“If you want to think about this in anecdotal terms, consider former congressman Chris Shays (R-CT), famous for several cycles for being the Republican with the most-Democratic district in the House.”
Matthew Yglesias » Little Evidence to Support Gerrymandering-Polarization Link
“One of his comments, though anecdotal, is interesting because it suggests that children and adults receive stories in very different ways.”
“The slight note of annoyance may have been as much a reaction to what in anecdotal evidence has been described as Tsietsi's somewhat pompous and arrogant attitude as it was an indication of Morobe's disappointment at or criticism of the departure of their leader.”
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
“This phenomenon is difficult to measure because it was not systematically recorded, although it was frequently referred to in anecdotal evidence of the period. 3”
“It's also far too steeped in anecdotal evidence and what people want it to reveal.”
“It traces, in anecdotal rather than dry historical terms, the development of Maclean Hunter in parallel with the development of Canada.”
“Each code contains different information; some access video of artists talking about the piece the visitor is viewing or video of the artist installing the work, some display still images and background information, while others contain short anecdotal text messages about the pieces they are near.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘anecdotal’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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words
my words. my mind. my gosh.
try not to enjoy it too much.git, ghoti, sauce, quail, querulous, quarrelsome, reliability, untoward, incongruities, fission, fanatic, apple and 206 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, A
abaculus, abacus, abaft, abarticular, abbreviate, abeyance, abiding, anthocyanin, antemeridian, arcane, adjure, adduce and 418 more...
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amy's GRE 2012
gimmicks, kowtow, unpretentious, skeptical, cynical, somber, prevaricate, equivocate, requisite, embellish, impregnable, procrastinate and 307 more...
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Verbalitis
syncretic
anecdotal, phthisis, serendipitous, slapper, syncretic, sesquipedalian, hysteresis, polt, noyade, crocket, irenic, masquerade and 279 more...
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Hilary's List
Just a list of words I like
wellspring, mystery, wonderment, intrinsic, artisan, enchantment, magic, transience, incomplete, impermanent, imperfect, resonance and 163 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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miscellany
preposterous, minimalism, outnumbered, subroutine, malinger, oddity, eccentricity, laughable, oxymoronic, interstellar, winter, heedless and 335 more...
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Day Day Up
spurn, underscore, bode, anecdotal, phenomenal, straddle, epic, redux, unspool, rhetoric, censor, savvy and 38 more...
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arrogate, aborigines, antediluvian, abeyance, asunder, arcane, arguably, anecdotal, anecdote, adumbrate, accost, aver and 9 more...
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General
apostasy, anecdotal, divisive, abiogenesis, pragmatic, sycophant, cogent, histrionics, a, defing, asdf, asdffdf and 6 more...
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mcolby's list
Interesting words and words I try to remember in my aging brain
anecdotal, epiphany, verklempt, serendipitous, ignominious, encomium, sonorous, dystopia, sycophant, obsequious, servile
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List 004
abdicate, catcall, tyrannical, repulsion, hospitable, ostentatious, oblivious, vociferous, anecdotal, ulterior, saturation, cajolery and 17 more...
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melcarroll's list
Magpies
mellifluous, obtuse, ephemeral, translucent, anchorite, limerence, ephemeroptera, eclectic, saturniid, luminescent, incandescent, irridescent and 39 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for anecdotal.
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