Crossword clues for connote
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
connote \con*note"\ (k[o^]n*n[=o]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. connoted; p. pr. & vb. n. connoting.] [See connotate, and cote.]
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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.
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(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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from Medieval Latin connotare "to mark along with," (see connotation). A common word in medieval logic. Related: Connoted; connoting.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To signify beyond its literal or principal meaning. 2 (context transitive English) To possess an inseparable related condition; to imply as a logical consequence. 3 (context intransitive English) To express without overt reference; to imply. 4 (context intransitive English) To require as a logical predicate to consequence.
WordNet
Usage examples of "connote".
Hispanic term for whatever interior disorder drives the addict back again and again to the enslaving Substance is tecato gusano, which apparently connotes some kind of interior psychic worm that cannot be sated or killed.
But whether all terms must connote as well as denote something, has been much debated.
A secretary of an embassy, whom I knew some years after, told me that a paid informer, with two other witnesses, also, doubtless, in the pay of this grand tribunal, had declared that I was guilty of only believing in the devil, as if this absurd belief, if it were possible, did not necessarily connote a belief in God!
Charged particle beams, neutron bombs, and other brainstorms of deranged Pentagon heavies, connoting the guaranteed annihilation of you all.
It should have connoted nonchalance, but that wasn't what came through to Poppy.
It connoted no political allegiance or leaning, though Spock knew the man was a member of the movement.
You have to break past your image of God to get through to the connoted illumination.
She turned the pages, and satisfied herself on the exact status and claims which are connoted by the word 'widow'.
The word that best connoted why the glass's mouth looked slotty was probably foreshortened.
Whether by this there is connoted something in the nature of a combination of presentiments, or a great effort of will, or a self-annulment of one's true expectations, and so on, I do not know.
The conventional expression "dimwebbers, meeps, and ropy spaalgs," connoting the whole class of minor demonry, told me this much.
Hence, any word which denotes such a group of facts connotes the rights attached to it by way of legal consequences, and any word which denotes the rights attached to a group of facts connotes the group of facts in like manner.
The only difference is, that, [215] while possession denotes the facts and connotes the consequence, property always, and contract with more uncertainty and oscillation, denote the consequence and connote the facts.
In most people’s minds, it usually refers to certain kinds of practice, certain symbols and signs, that we don’t observe and practice, but other people do—people who do nasty things, is usually what that word connotes in the popular mind.
I've already reached the point where my name connotes nothing more to me than the designation EKseventeen might connote.