Connotation vs. Broken — What's the Difference?

A connotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that any given word or phrase carries, in addition to its explicit or literal meaning, which is its denotation. A connotation is frequently described as either positive or negative, with regard to its pleasing or displeasing emotional connection.

Past participle of break.

The act or process of connoting.

Forcibly separated into two or more pieces; fractured

An idea or meaning suggested by or associated with a word or thing

Sundered by divorce, separation, or desertion of a parent or parents

The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.

Having been violated

(Logic) The set of attributes constituting the meaning of a term; intension.

Incomplete

(semantics) A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.

Being in a state of disarray; disordered

(logic) The attribute or aggregate of attributes connoted by a term, contrasted with denotation.

Intermittently stopping and starting; discontinuous

The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.

Varying abruptly, as in pitch

A meaning implied but not explicitly denoted by some word or expression, which may be understood in addition to the explicit primary meaning.

Spoken with gaps and errors

The full set of necessary properties possessed by all the objects within the extension of a term; the intensional meaning of a term, which determines the objects to which the term applies; the intension of a term.

Topographically rough; uneven

What you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression

Subdued totally; humbled

An idea that is implied or suggested

Weakened and infirm

Crushed by grief

Financially ruined; bankrupt.

Not functioning; out of order

Inflection of break

; in separate pieces.

; having the bone in pieces.

(of skin) split or ruptured.

; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.

(of sleep) interrupted; not continuous.

Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.

Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous.

Breached; violated; not kept.

; not functioning properly.

Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.

Badly designed or implemented.

(of language) Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker.

Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.

Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.

Having no money; bankrupt, broke.

(of land) Uneven.

Overpowered; overly powerful; too powerful.

Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish.

Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface.

Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained; apart; as, a broken reed; broken friendship.

Made infirm or weak, by disease, age, or hardships.

Subdued; humbled; contrite.

Subjugated; trained for use, as a horse.

Crushed and ruined as by something that destroys hope; blighted.

Not carried into effect; not adhered to; violated; as, a broken promise, vow, or contract; a broken law.

Ruined financially; incapable of redeeming promises made, or of paying debts incurred; as, a broken bank; a broken tradesman.

Imperfectly spoken, as by a foreigner; as, broken English; imperfectly spoken on account of emotion; as, to say a few broken words at parting.

Physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split; or legally or emotionally destroyed;

Not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly;

Subdued or brought low in condition or status;

(especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded;

Tamed or trained to obey;

Topographically very uneven;

Imperfectly spoken or written;

Thrown into a state of disarray or confusion;

Weakened and infirm;

Destroyed financially;

Out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken');

Discontinuous;

Lacking a part or parts;