Connotative

adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    that implies or suggests something else
Adjective
  1. 1
    having the power of implying or suggesting something in addition to what is explicit wordnet

Synonyms

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implicativeintensionalallegoricalassociationalconnotationalconnotative of

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"The logician as such, with his predilection for water-tight compartments in the realm of ideas, is not concerned with what to me as a linguist seems a most important question, viz. how is it to be explained that a sequence of sounds with no meaning at all suddenly from non-connotative becomes connotative, and that this new full meaning is at once accepted by the whole speaking community?"

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