connote
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 7
/kəˈnəʊt/
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/kəˈnəʊt/ · /kɒˈnəʊt/ · /kəˈnoʊt/ (US)
Definition of connote
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To signify beyond its literal or principal meaning.
“Racism often connotes an underlying fear or ignorance.”
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verb
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(transitive)To signify beyond its literal or principal meaning.
“Racism often connotes an underlying fear or ignorance.”
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(transitive)To possess an inseparable related condition; to imply as a logical consequence.
“Poverty connotes hunger.”
“Doctors should be reminded that absence of evidence does not connote a mental illness …”
- (intransitive)To express without overt reference; to imply.
- (intransitive)To require as a logical predicate to consequence.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Medieval Latin connotō (“signify beyond literal meaning”), from com- (“together”), + notō (“mark”).
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