Connotatory

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Serving to connote. not-comparable

    "He sees music as centrally combinatory and peripherally connotatory, whereas poetry is the other way round: music and poetry are in this sense mirror images of one another."

Example

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"He sees music as centrally combinatory and peripherally connotatory, whereas poetry is the other way round: music and poetry are in this sense mirror images of one another."

Etymology

From connote + -atory.

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