Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Given to telling anecdotes.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to anecdotes; consisting of or of the nature of anecdotes; anecdotal.
  • Given to relating anecdotes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to, consisting of, or addicted to, anecdotes.

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  • adjective Anecdotal; of or pertaining to anecdotes.
  • adjective Tending to tell anecdotes.

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  • adjective characterized by or given to telling anecdotes

Etymologies

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anecdote +‎ -ic

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Examples

  • What may be termed the anecdotic literature of the Court is particularly rich and trivial, and this is only to be expected in a country where the monarchy and its representative are so forcibly and constantly brought home to the people's consciousness.

    William of Germany Stanley Shaw

  • What may be termed the anecdotic literature of the Court is particularly rich and trivial, and this is only to be expected in a country where the monarchy and its representative are so forcibly and constantly brought home to the people's consciousness.

    William of Germany Shaw, Stanley 1913

  • A.D. 106) was the author of _Stratagematicon Libri IV. _, a kind of anecdotic treatise on the Art of War; ÆLIANUS (time of the

    The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864

  • A.D. 106) was the author of Stratagematicon Libri IV., a kind of anecdotic treatise on the Art.of War; AELIANUS (time of the Emperor Hadrian) and POLYAENUS the Macedonian (second century) were Greek writers on the Military Art. Though Milton does not name them in his tract, he doubtless had them in view among Military Books to be read.

    The Life of John Milton Masson, David, 1822-1907 1859

  • This illustrates the artistic importance of Savoy, a crossrads and centre for exchanges which, far from restricting itself to a peripheral and anecdotic role, was genuinely one of the Meccas of European musical history.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • Even of anecdotic history very little attaches to it.

    Little Eyolf 2008

  • The anecdotic history of John Gabriel Borkman is even scantier than that of Little Eyolf.

    John Gabriel Borkman 2008

  • Not sure which info is more accurate but I am under the strong impresion that Rh- is as important in Africa as it is in West or South Asia, not merely anecdotic.

    Neanderthal DNA Kosmo 2008

  • Even of anecdotic history very little attaches to it.

    Little Eyolf 2008

  • The anecdotic history of John Gabriel Borkman is even scantier than that of Little Eyolf.

    John Gabriel Borkman 2008

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  • "Avoiding the popular 'Wolfe collection,' whose anecdotic canvases filled one of the main galleries of the queer wilderness of cast-iron and encaustic tiles known as the Metropolitan Museum, they had wandered down a passage to the room where the 'Cesnola antiquities' mouldered in unvisited loneliness."

    - Edith Wharton, 'The Age of Innocence'.

    September 20, 2009