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US
/ˌænəkˈdoʊtəɫ, ˌænɪkˈdoʊtəɫ/
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[ UK /ˈænɪkdˌəʊtəl/ ]
[ UK /ˈænɪkdˌəʊtəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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characterized by or given to telling anecdotes
an anecdotal history of jazz
he was at his anecdotic best
anecdotal conversation -
having the character of an anecdote
anecdotal evidence
How To Use anecdotal In A Sentence
- Systematic research can extend and refine traditional and anecdotal knowledge.
- We hear about this regularly on an anecdotal basis with a number of managing agents. Times, Sunday Times
- Anecdotal evidence has long pointed to crofters being a hale and hearty breed - albeit prone to bad backs and the odd grumble.
- Similarly, the facetting pattern masks inclusions sufficiently that, anecdotally, lay-persons are unable to see certain inclusions (even down to SI2 or EVEN P1) even with a 10x loupe. Www.hardwarezone.com.sg
- Fictional situations are related anecdotally to life experiences. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
- Much of the information and government decisions concerning goldenseal are based on anecdotal rather than quantitative information on population status.
- From elegant trapeze artists to humorous anecdotal scenes of circus life on a shoestring budget, you can see why Camille is tempted to join Petra and run away with the circus.
- Such preoccupations rarely seem to have troubled the solitary beings who inhabit the clamorous pages of her witty, erudite and anecdotal - if inconclusive - study.
- Nursing literature is full of anecdotal accounts of the distant approach that doctors have towards patients and their carers.
- Griffen is different perhaps an anecdotal proof of nurturing over naturing, but he is only interested in running the gambling empire his mentor turned over to him. Dragon’s Luck-Robert Asprin « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
