Connote vs. Connotate — Which is Correct Spelling?
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Which is correct: Connote or Connotate
How to spell Connote?
Connote
Correct Spelling
Connotate
Incorrect Spelling
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Connote Definitions
(of a word) imply or suggest (an idea or feeling) in addition to the literal or primary meaning
The term ‘modern science’ usually connotes a complete openness to empirical testing
To suggest or imply in addition to literal meaning
The word "lion" denotes a kind of wild cat but connotes courage and dignity.
To have as a related or attendant condition
For a political leader, hesitation is apt to connote weakness.
(transitive) To signify beyond its literal or principal meaning.
Racism often connotes an underlying fear or ignorance.
(transitive) To possess an inseparable related condition; to imply as a logical consequence.
Poverty connotes hunger.
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(intransitive) To express without overt reference; to imply.
(intransitive) To require as a logical predicate to consequence.
To mark along with; to suggest or indicate as additional; to designate by implication; to include in the meaning; to imply.
Good, in the general notion of it, connotes also a certain suitableness of it to some other thing.
To imply as an attribute.
The word "white" denotes all white things, as snow, paper, the foam of the sea, etc., and ipmlies, or as it was termed by the schoolmen, connotes, the attribute "whiteness."
Express or state indirectly
Involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic;
Solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well
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