Definitions for anecdotic

anecdotic an·ec·dot·ic

Spelling: [an-ik-dot-ik or an-ik-dot-i-kuh l]
IPA: /ˌæn ɪkˈdɒt ɪk or ˌæn ɪkˈdɒt ɪ kəl/

Anecdotic is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 459 anagrams from letters in anecdotic (accdeinot).

Definitions for anecdotic

adjective

  1. anecdotal.
  2. fond of telling anecdotes.

Origin of anecdotic

First recorded in 1780-90; anecdote + -ic

Examples for anecdotic

Even Defregger had observed peasant life altogether from a narrative and anecdotic point of view.

This, which is known as “Adab literature,” is anecdotic in style with much quotation of early poetry and proverb.

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.

Idyllic and anecdotic scenes play by far the larger part in these compositions.

The success of the plays also brought about an incident famous in French literary history of the anecdotic kind.

It was soon perceived, through comparisons easily made, that these scenes were not anecdotic.

Every figure was painted after nature with blunt and rigorous sincerity, and no anecdotic incident was devised in it.

Two elements in these books are sharply contrasted, the political and the anecdotic.

That taste for story-telling—that anecdotic habit—is quite vulgar; nobody does it now.

Mount Dalton and its doings were an anecdotic mine, of which they had never explored a single "shaft."

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