Connotation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONNOTATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of connoting
• the abstract meaning or intension of a term, which forms a principle determining which objects or concepts it applies to.
• an idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning
• The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.
• what you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression
• an idea that is implied or suggested
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the suggesting of a meaning by a word apart from the thing it explicitly names or describes; something suggested by a word or thing; implication

Words related to CONNOTATION

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Words that contain CONNOTATION

connotations14 connotational15

How to use CONNOTATION in a sentence

• Moreover circumstance as well as sentiment may control the connotation of a word.
• What is wrong with the connotation of the following? The servant told us that the young ladies were all in.
• They had been diverted from their hereditary connotation to signify impressions for which Nature did not intend them.
• It is a characteristic of this style that if a connotation is obvious it should not be explicitly stated.
• What is that connotation? Let us take the case of the swimming duckling or the pecking chick, and fix our attention on the first instinctive performance.
• In poetry as a whole wine is taken to have a different connotation than the ordinary intoxicating liquid.
• At any rate, if not categorically expressed, the connotation of the idea of homogeneity exists.
• The gradual change in the connotation of the word is one of the results of the blending of Christian and classical ideas.
• There was a differing connotation in the hands, to be sure.
• It carried, as Byrne gazed, a connotation of swifter, fiercer thinking, than if the gaunt old man had stalked the floor and poured forth a tirade of words.
• Such an intellect and truth are expressions having a different metaphorical background and connotation, but, when thought out, an identical import.

Similar words containing NNOTA without suffix tion and without prefix co

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