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[ an-ik-dot-ik ] / ˌæn ɪkˈdɒt ɪk / SEE SYNONYMS FOR anecdotic ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveanecdotal. fond of telling anecdotes. Also an·ec·dot·i·cal [an-ik-dot-i-kuhl] /ˌæn ɪkˈdɒt ɪ kəl/ . Origin of anecdoticFirst recorded in 1780–90; anecdote + -ic OTHER WORDS FROM anecdotican·ec·dot·i·cal·ly, adverbWords nearby anecdoticanear, anecdata, anecdotage, anecdotal, anecdote, anecdotic, anecdotist, anecdysis, anechoic, anectasis, educated guess, an Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for anecdoticThe success of the plays also brought about an incident famous in French literary history of the anecdotic kind. A Short History of French Literature|George Saintsbury Mount Dalton and its doings were an anecdotic mine, of which they had never explored a single "shaft." The Daltons, Volume II (of II)|Charles James Lever That taste for story-telling—that anecdotic habit—is quite vulgar; nobody does it now. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II)|Charles James Lever Two elements in these books are sharply contrasted, the political and the anecdotic. The Age of Dryden|Richard Garnett
Words related to anecdoticdetailed, vivid, eloquent, illuminating, pictorial, expressive, definitive, revealing, identifying, characteristic, circumstantial, clear, expository, extended, graphic, illustrative, indicative, lifelike, narrative, picturesque |