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anecdotical

anecdotical is the dated form of anecdotal.

Meaning of anecdotal

Adjective

anecdotal (comparative more anecdotal, superlative most anecdotal)

  1. Of the nature of or relating to an anecdote.
    • A central diagnostic and anecdotal feature of autism is difficulty with social communication.2021 April 29, Gemma L. Williams, Tim Wharton, Caroline Jagoe, “Mutual (Mis)understanding: Reframing Autistic Pragmatic “Impairments” Using Relevance Theory”, in Frontiers in Psychology, volume 12...
  2. Containing or abounding in anecdotes.

Forms of anecdotical

comparativemore anecdotical
superlativemost anecdotical

Origin of anecdotical

From anecdote + -ical.

Questions about anecdotical

What is anecdotical the dated form of?
Anecdotical is the dated form of anecdotal.

Words near anecdotical in the dictionary

  1. anecdoted
  2. anecdoter
  3. anecdoters
  4. anecdotes
  5. anecdotic
  6. anecdotical
  7. anecdotically
  8. anecdotics
  9. anecdoting
  10. anecdotish
  11. anecdotism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anecdotical (page history and authors); anecdotal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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