Racism often connotes an underlying fear or ignorance.
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Connote
//kəˈnəʊt//
Synonyms for "connote" (80 found)
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Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (24)
Related words (40)
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More general
4 entriesSynonyms
8 entriesRelated terms
5 entriescoordinate
3 entriesderived
2 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
13 entriesTranslations
42 translations across 19 languages.
Asturian
1 entries- connotar verb (to signify beyond principal meaning)
Bulgarian
1 entries- означавам verb (to imply, to suggest)
Catalan
1 entries- connotar verb (to signify beyond principal meaning)
French
4 entries- connoter verb (to signify beyond principal meaning)
- connoter verb (to imply, to suggest)
- désigner verb (to signify beyond principal meaning)
- impliquer verb (to signify beyond principal meaning)
Galician
1 entries- connotar verb (to signify beyond principal meaning)
German
4 entries- bedeuten verb (to signify beyond principal meaning)
- bedeuten verb (to imply, to suggest)
- konnotieren verb (to signify beyond principal meaning)
- konnotieren verb (to imply, to suggest)
Hungarian
1 entries- utal verb (to imply, to suggest)
Italian
3 entries- connotare verb (to signify beyond principal meaning)
- connotare verb (to imply, to suggest)
- implicare verb (to imply, to suggest)
Māori
1 entries- tohutua verb (to signify beyond principal meaning)
Occitan
1 entries- connotar verb (to signify beyond principal meaning)
Polish
3 entries- konotować verb (to imply, to suggest)
- przywoływaćprzywodzić na myśl verb (to imply, to suggest)
- sugerować verb (to signify beyond principal meaning)
Portuguese
2 entries- conotar verb (to signify beyond principal meaning)
- conotar verb (to imply, to suggest)
Romanian
3 entries- implica verb (to signify beyond principal meaning)
- implica verb (to imply, to suggest)
- sugera verb (to signify beyond principal meaning)
Romansch
1 entries- proponer verb (to imply, to suggest)
Russian
2 entries- означа́ть verb (to imply, to suggest)
- подразумевать verb (to signify beyond principal meaning)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- implicirati verb (to imply, to suggest)
- konotirati verb (to signify beyond principal meaning)
- konotirati verb (to imply, to suggest)
- sugerisati verb (to signify beyond principal meaning)
Slovene
3 entries- konotirati verb (to signify beyond principal meaning)
- namigovati verb (to imply, to suggest)
- sugerirati verb (to imply, to suggest)
Spanish
2 entries- connotar verb (to signify beyond principal meaning)
- connotar verb (to imply, to suggest)
Swedish
1 entries- innebära verb (to imply, to suggest)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Poverty connotes hunger.
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Doctors should be reminded that absence of evidence does not connote a mental illness …
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