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anecdotic

or an·ec·dot·i·cal

[ an-ik-dot-ik or an-ik-dot-i-kuh l ]

/ ˌæn ɪkˈdɒt ɪk or ˌæn ɪkˈdɒt ɪ kəl /

SEE SYNONYMS FOR anecdotic ON THESAURUS.COM

adjective

anecdotal.

fond of telling anecdotes.

Origin of anecdotic

First recorded in 1780–90; anecdote + -ic

OTHER WORDS FROM anecdotic

an·ec·dot·i·cal·ly, adverb

Words nearby anecdotic

anear, anecdata, anecdotage, anecdotal, anecdote, anecdotic, anecdotist, anecdysis, anechoic, anectasis, aneirin

Example sentences from the Web for anecdotic

The 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

It was soon perceived, through comparisons easily made, that these scenes were not anecdotic.

A history of art in ancient Egypt, Vol. I (of 2) |Georges Perrot