CONNOTATION: Meaning and related words

We found 36 dictionaries that define the word connotation:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

connotation: Merriam-Webster.com
connotation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
connotation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
connotation: Collins English Dictionary
connotation: Vocabulary.com
Connotation, connotation: Wordnik
connotation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
connotation: Wiktionary
connotation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
connotation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
connotation: Infoplease Dictionary
connotation: Dictionary.com
connotation: Online Etymology Dictionary
connotation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Connotation (Semiotics), Connotation (semiotics), Connotation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Connotation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
connotation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
connotation: Rhymezone
connotation, connotation (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
connotation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
connotation: Free Dictionary
connotation: Mnemonic Dictionary
connotation: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
connotation: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (5 matching dictionaries)

connotation: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
connotation: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
Literary Criticism (No longer online)
Connotation: Lexicon of Linguistics
CONNOTATION: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
connotation: Legal dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)

connotation: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

connotation: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun: (semantics) A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.
▸ noun: (logic) The attribute or aggregate of attributes connoted by a term, contrasted with denotation.

Opposite:

denotation, denotative, denotative meaning

Types:

positive, negative, neutral, more...

Phrases:

negative connotation, bad connotation, categorized negative connotation, previous connotation, ravish without the rape connotation, more...

Adjectives:

negative, different, positive, sexual, pejorative, same, religious, wide, political, moral, special

Colors:

red, blue, green, yellow, black, white, purple, pink, orange, brown

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