Connoteverb
(transitive) To signify beyond its literal or principal meaning.
‘Racism often connotes an underlying fear or ignorance.’;
Connotateverb
To connote; to suggest or designate (something) as additional; to include; to imply.
Connoteverb
(transitive) To possess an inseparable related condition; to imply as a logical consequence.
‘Poverty connotes hunger.’;
Connotateverb
To connote; to suggest or designate (something) as additional; to include; to imply.
Connoteverb
(intransitive) To express without overt reference; to imply.
Connoteverb
(intransitive) To require as a logical predicate to consequence.
Connoteverb
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.’;
Connoteverb
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."’;
Connoteverb
express or state indirectly
Connoteverb
involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic;
‘solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well’;
Connoteverb
(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’;
Connoteverb
(of a fact) imply as a consequence or condition
‘spinsterhood connoted failure’;
