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Antonyms for anecdotic

Grammar : Adj

Spell : an-ik-dot-ik or an-ik-dot-i-kuh l

Phonetic Transcription : ˌæn ɪkˈdɒt ɪk or ˌæn ɪkˈdɒt ɪ kəl

Definition of anecdotic

As in descriptive : adj explanatory

Example sentences :

Two elements in these books are sharply contrasted, the political and the anecdotic.
Extract from : « The Age of Dryden » by Richard Garnett

This, which is known as “Adab literature,” is anecdotic in style with much quotation of early poetry and proverb.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 » by Various

That taste for story-telling—that anecdotic habit—is quite vulgar; nobody does it now.
Extract from : « The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) » by Charles James Lever

Mount Dalton and its doings were an anecdotic mine, of which they had never explored a single "shaft."
Extract from : « The Daltons, Volume II (of II) » by 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.
Extract from : « A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 » by George Saintsbury

The success of the plays also brought about an incident famous in French literary history of the anecdotic kind.
Extract from : « A Short History of French Literature » by George Saintsbury

It was soon perceived, through comparisons easily made, that these scenes were not anecdotic.
Extract from : « A history of art in ancient Egypt, Vol. I (of 2) » by Georges Perrot

Every figure was painted after nature with blunt and rigorous sincerity, and no anecdotic incident was devised in it.
Extract from : « The History of Modern Painting, Volume 3 (of 4) » by Richard Muther

Even Defregger had observed peasant life altogether from a narrative and anecdotic point of view.
Extract from : « The History of Modern Painting, Volume 3 (of 4) » by Richard Muther

Idyllic and anecdotic scenes play by far the larger part in these compositions.
Extract from : « Goya » by Fr. Crastre

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