Connotation

/ˌkɒnəˈteɪʃən/

Synonyms for "connotation" (112 found)

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Closest matches (23)

Noun(7 words)
affective toneassociationsconnotingcontextual meaningcultural meaningemotional loadevaluative charge

Strong matches (33)

gistgrammatical meaninghintideaimpactimplicationimplied meaningimportinferenceinnuendointensionintimationironic suggestionlexical meaningliteral meaningmeaningmetaphorical sensenuanceoccult meaning
Adjective(4 words)
implied meaning inferenceindirect meaninginner-city culturelinguistic signification
Verb(1 words)
Determiner(1 words)
most linguistic concept

Related words (56)

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significatumsignifiespan of meaningspiritstructural meaningsubsensesubsidiary sensesubstancesuggestionsumsum and substancesuppositionsymbolic meaningsymbolismtenortingetotality of associationstouchtransferred meaningunadorned meaningundercurrentundermeaningundertonevalue
Noun(11 words)
overtonessemantic effectsemanticssenssense of beingsensessignificationssignifyingsocial associationsundertonesword meaning
Adjective(1 words)
political import

Related word relations

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8 entries
cultural connotationemotional connotationgender connotationnegative connotationpejorative connotationpolitical connotationpositive connotationregional connotation

Collocations

6 entries
connotative meaningcultural connotationemotional connotationlinguistic connotationnegative connotationpositive connotation

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

4 entries

Sample sentences

13 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

In the first paragraph, she describes the labels she was tagged with, which have a negative connotation.

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For most Americans, "Allahu akbar" fails of the crucial connotation: "And you're not."

Source: tatoeba (2047265)

Through both denotation and connotation, many Turkish names are weighty with symbolism. Before the Second World War, the European system of name-giving was adopted, and the people of Turkey chose new surnames for themselves from a list of names which had been created on the basis of etymology and semantics.

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Let's begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift minimizes — indeed, deletes — the role of wealth in the economic and social system. And it sheds the adverse connotation going back to Marx. Instead of the owners of capital or their attendants in control, we have the admirably impersonal role of market forces. It would be hard to think of a change in terminology more in the interest of those to whom money accords power.

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