- pertaining to, resembling, or containing anecdotes: an anecdotal history of jazz.
- (of the treatment of subject matter in representational art) pertaining to the relationship of figures or to the arrangement of elements in a scene so as to emphasize the story content of a subject.
- based on personal observation, case study reports, or random investigations rather than systematic scientific evaluation: anecdotal evidence.
- containing or consisting exclusively of anecdotes rather than connected discourse or research conducted under controlled conditions
