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Definition of "connotative" [con•no•ta•tive]

  • That implies or suggests something else. (adjective)

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Use "connotative" in a sentence
  • "The label connotative is inserted to indicate those words and meanings that come from a source other than the name in the headword but are nonetheless closely associated with it."
  • "Even more generously, he helps me (and with a helper like White I need no hinderers) to say what he wants me to mean by "connotative," but what I did not say and did not mean when I used the term."
  • "If Hexter were more philosophically literate than he appears to be, he might say that when he uses the word "connotative" he has in mind what some philosophers mean by the word "emotive.""