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Pertaining to a short account
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anecdotal
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Word definitions for anecdotal in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES anecdotal evidence (= based on what people believe, rather than on facts ) ▪ Anecdotal evidence suggests that gang-related violence is on the increase. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN evidence ▪ However, there is ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1794, from anecdote + -al (1). Related: Anecdotally . Anecdotical is attested from 1744.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of the nature of or relating to an anecdote. 2 Containing or abounding in anecdotes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anecdotal \An"ec*do`tal\, a. Pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes; as, anecdotal conversation.
Usage examples of anecdotal.
My correspondence relative to what passed in the south of France and of Europe presented to me, if I may so express myself, merely an anecdotal interest.
Generally speaking, it would be more advisable to become a chatterer and keep an anecdotal note-book.
Patterne Port kept Dr Middleton in a benevolent reserve when Willoughby decided that something said by De Craye was not new, and laughingly accused him of failing to consult his anecdotal notebook for the double-cross to his last sprightly sally.
Colonel De Craye assiduously courted him, was anecdotal, deferential, charmingly vivacious, the very man the Rev.
Long dismissed as anecdotal, menstrual synchrony was first documented scientifically by Martha McClintock, then an undergraduate psychology major at Wellesley, an all-female college in Massachusetts.
Generally speaking, it would be more advisable to become a chatterer and keep an anecdotal note-book.
He did nothing to bridge the crevasse and warm the glacier air at table when the doctor, anecdotal intentionally to draw him out, related a decorous but pungent story of one fair member of a sweet new sisterhood in agitation against the fixed establishment of our chain-mail marriage-tie.
He had provided a half dozen anecdotal examples of Cambodian rudeness, barbarity, dishonesty, laziness, and otherwise slovenly conduct.
Captain Tom went sailing from island to island, appearing unexpectedly in various localities, beaming, noisy, anecdotal, commendatory or comminatory, but always welcome.
Other symptoms included configural association failure and foreign accent syndrome, though most of the evidence is highly anecdotal.
They've been known to make themselves levitate, if you believe the anecdotal evidence.
But our anecdotal evidence suggests that there are two stronger reasons for the loyalty he has enjoyed.
There is much anecdotal evidence regarding the ability of cats to sense emotions in humans, though I must admit there is considerable evidence as well that the ability is due to their keen sense of smell.
You and I need hard evidence, but Zennor's crew may well be satisfied with anecdotal evidence.
Unattributed tales, anecdotal evidence, wildly contradictory accounts of How I Survived an Encounter with a Charonese.