Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to antidotes; having the quality of an antidote; proof against poison or anything hurtful.

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

  • adjective Having the quality an antidote; fitted to counteract the effects of poison.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Relating to an antidote.

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

  • adjective counteracting the effects of a poison

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Examples

  • I don't know what "antidotal" facts are, but a factual record in a court is more systematic than an anecdote.

    When divas attack, Part 2. Ann Althouse 2006

  • Sorry to pick on Ben, but I also laughed when he referred to antidotal evidence, a nice new Bushism or verbal typo that I guess means a piece of evidence that fixes a poisonous problem.

    Reviewing Rand: Correlation, Causation, and SEO | Managing Greatness 2009

  • More accurate, factual, data is appearing instead of the antidotal, fictional, delusional, overly wordy garbage you have posted from a, self delusional, narcissist, that is potentially paranoid and psychotic.

    Peter Sumaruck II 2010

  • Although HUD will not release conclusive results from the recent Counts until this summer, we are already seeing plenty of antidotal information and partial numbers portending bad news.

    Census Time: Who is Homeless? 2010

  • We did get ours, but it seems as though this year - and you know, this is antidotal - again, though, we called four or five different area places that usually offer seasonal flu vaccine and they're out of it, and they haven't even gotten the swine flu vaccine.

    CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2009 2009

  • This show is close to a public service in its antidotal effects.

    Daniel Menaker: Discomfort Zone 2009

  • Even if I could find all the antidotal data points like you and me, most of it would be discounted as a misunderstanding or simple loss of faith.

    A quasi-religious movement 2007

  • Likewise, I recognize my comments that those who are gay that I know assert they have always been attracted to men is also antidotal.

    Sexual Disorientation? James F. McGrath 2009

  • This is a very short story, Flash Fiction, if you will that treads on the edge of being antidotal.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Aaron M. Wilson 2008

  • He starts with an antidotal story that a teach told him in class, about how a boy tied a red towel around his neck as a cape and jumped from a building, hoping to fly, with the explanation being that the boy could not distinguish between reality and the reality that he saw in comic books.

    Costumes and Fandom Andrew 2008

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