anecdotal

Speech parts

1. anecdotal - Adjective

2. anecdotal - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes; as, anecdotal conversation.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

anecdotic anecdotical different certain separate divided alone distinct dedicated apart express narrative informal discrete unreliable
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Antonyms

certain good responsible stable solid substantial
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Anagrams

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Examples

Anecdotal data is not incidental to theory development at all, but an essential part of it. Henry Mintzberg

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact. Georges Braque

Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless. Katherine Dunn

Positive general principles need always to be supplemented by negative, anecdotal censors. For, it hardly ever pays to alter a general mechanism to correct a particular bug. Marvin Minsky

I will never be convinced by any anecdotal report, ever, especially if something extremely unlikely or unusual. Memory is not a reliable piece of data. Steven Novella

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training. Michael Shermer

Close letter words and terms

anear anearst anecdotage anecdotal evidence anecdotalism anecdotalist