connotative

Adjective

Meaning

Implying something additional; illative.

Implying an attribute. See Connote.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

significant meaning referential typical characteristic representative symbolic diagnostic expressive reminiscent indicative allegorical figurative suggestive symptomatic
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Antonyms

denotative referential naming explicit inductive extensional
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Related terms

connotation connote

Examples

Maps, due to their melding of scientific and artistic approaches, always involve complex interaction between the denotative and the connotative meanings of signs they contain. Alan MacEachren

A connotative meaning of a television would be that it is top-of-the-line. citation Apple's commercials used a black silhouette of a person that was the age of Apple's target market. Source: Internet

Following to Milton, English poetry from Pope to John Keats exhibited a steadily increasing attention to the connotative, the imaginative and poetic, value of words. Source: Internet

Millian theory John Stuart Mill distinguished between connotative and denotative meaning, and argued that proper names included no other semantic content to a proposition than identifying the referent of the name and were hence purely denotative. Source: Internet

The signified has two meanings known as denotative and connotative. Source: Internet

The connotative meaning is the product's deep and hidden meaning. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

connotational connotationally connotationless connotative of connotatively connotatory