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Webster 1913 Edition
connote
con-note′
(kŏn-nōt′)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
connoted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
connoting
.] 1.
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. South.
2.
(Logic)
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.” J. S. Mill.
Webster 1828 Edition
Connote
CONNOTE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
connote
connote
See also: connoté
English
Verb
connote (third-person singular simple present connotes, present participle connoting, simple past and past participle connoted)
- (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.
- (intransitive) To express without overt reference; to imply.
- (intransitive) To require as a logical predicate to consequence.
Synonyms
- (possess an inseparable condition): entail, imply
- (express without overt reference): entail, imply
- (require as a logical predicate): predicate
Related terms
- connotation
- connotative
- connotatively
- connotive
Translations
to signify beyond principal meaning
to imply, to suggest
See also
Anagrams
Asturian
Verb
connote
- first-person singular present subjunctive of connotar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of connotar
French
Verb
connote
- first-person singular present indicative of connoter
- third-person singular present indicative of connoter
- first-person singular present subjunctive of connoter
- third-person singular present subjunctive of connoter
- second-person singular imperative of connoter
Spanish
Verb
connote
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of connotar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of connotar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of connotar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of connotar.