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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
anecdotal
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 abundant anecdotal evidence of the effects of chemical pollution on the populations of small cetaceans inhabiting industrialised areas.
▪ The anecdotal evidence is supported Statistically.
▪ The report is backed up by anecdotal evidence from careers fairs.
▪ But anecdotal evidence from marriage counselors and other professionals suggests that divorce rates spike when the first child leaves home.
▪ It is not merely anecdotal evidence.
▪ McLean had lots of anecdotal evidence in his training room Monday.
▪ The pictures of precision attacks provide only anecdotal evidence of effectiveness.
▪ Substantial anecdotal evidence indicates that men have not always been cooperative partners when it comes to the matter of family planning.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The book is an anecdotal account of Kent's trip to Borneo.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Beyond this, however, many of the claims were supported by anecdotal and subjective impressions only.
▪ His humorous and anecdotal but scholarly teaching style did not go unnoticed.
▪ In addition, problem-solution setups have an engaging, anecdotal quality.
▪ Systematic research can extend and refine traditional and anecdotal knowledge.
▪ The evidence is necessarily anecdotal, but it is very compelling.
▪ The report is backed up by anecdotal evidence from careers fairs.
▪ There is no apparent conclusive scientific study, but the anecdotal evidence is strong that the herb is useful.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anecdotal

Anecdotal \An"ec*do`tal\, a. Pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes; as, anecdotal conversation.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
anecdotal

1794, from anecdote + -al (1). Related: Anecdotally. Anecdotical is attested from 1744.

Wiktionary
anecdotal

a. 1 Of the nature of or relating to an anecdote. 2 Containing or abounding in anecdotes.

WordNet
anecdotal
  1. adj. having the character of an anecdote; "anecdotal evidence"

  2. characterized by or given to telling anecdotes; "anecdotal conversation"; "an anectodal history of jazz"; "he was at his anecdotic best" [syn: anecdotic, anecdotical]

Wikipedia

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.