anecdotic
or an·ec·dot·i·cal
[an-ik-dot-ik or an-ik-dot-i-kuh l]
Origin of anecdotic
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Related Words for anecdotic
detailed, vivid, eloquent, illuminating, pictorial, expressive, definitive, revealing, characteristic, circumstantial, clear, expository, extended, graphic, illustrative, indicative, lifelike, narrative, picturesque, specificExamples from the Web for anecdotic
Historical Examples of anecdotic
Two elements in these books are sharply contrasted, the political and the anecdotic.
The Age of DrydenRichard Garnett
This, which is known as “Adab literature,” is anecdotic in style with much quotation of early poetry and proverb.
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
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
But as a novelist he does not seem to me to be of much importance, nor even as a tale-teller, except of the anecdotic kind.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2George Saintsbury