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Anecdotal

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of, characterized by, or full of anecdotes.

adj. Based on casual observations or indications rather than rigorous or scientific analysis: "There are anecdotal reports of children poisoned by hot dogs roasted over a fire of the [oleander] stems” ( C. Claiborne Ray).

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Of the nature of or relating to an anecdote.

adj. Containing or abounding in anecdotes.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Pertaining to or consisting of anecdotes.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. having the character of an anecdote

adj. characterized by or given to telling anecdotes

Word Usage

"The court paperwork also claimed, based on what it called anecdotal accounts, shoppers no longer wanted to come to the mall, and the clientele that had stayed had caused more crime."

Equivalent

communicatory communicative

Form

anecdotally anecdotal evidence

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

immotile motile total

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

first-hand genealogical circumstantial factual autobiographical