Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To denote secondarily; refer to something besides the object named; imply the existence of along with or as correlated to the object named; connote; thus, the term “father” connotates a “child”: used especially of qualities whose existence is implied by adjectives: distinguished from denotate, denote.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To connote; to suggest or designate (something) as additional; to include; to imply.
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- verb To
connote ; tosuggest or designate (something) as additional; to include; to imply.
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Greed and Suck" used together connotate something worse than pond scum, a blob like amoeba, which survives on the bottom rung of humanity, in the sewers.
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And I think the one thing that I did like about it is that the name, The Whigs, didn't really connotate any particular sound.
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And it†™ s ashame how much that term ‘gay†™ is used in high school in the South to connotate a negative.
Think Progress » New Bush Policy: All Gays Should Be Celibate 2006
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I already explained that periods at the end of sentances do not connotate yelling, but normal tone.
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The word, ‘protest’, does not connotate calm, respectful discourse.
Think Progress » VIDEO: Protester Disrupts Bolton Hearing 2006
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And someone said the Whigs, and we put in the H and thought that made it a little bit more interesting, and we just kind of thought that it didn't really connotate any particular sound.
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Is a game series defined purely by its background setting, or does the franchise "Diablo" also connotate isometric hack'n'slash action-RPG?
Conservatism Steve gaynor 2008
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DICKINSON: I guess it would connotate ratings, wouldn ` t it, just, you know, to drill up all this trash about what she does with underage drinking?
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DICKINSON: I guess it would connotate ratings, wouldn ` t it, just, you know, to drill up all this trash about what she does with underage drinking?
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For some reason, "deviant" has been given a negative denotation, similar to "ignorant" that it does not connotate by current society.
Swarthmore, conquering heteronormativity with pornographic chalkings. Ann Althouse 2006
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