ADJECTIVE
- having the power of implying or suggesting something in addition to what is explicit
How To Use connotative In A Sentence
- Stories are never just arguments; they work most effectively by being neither didactic nor definitive: they attract and hold our attention because they are connotative not denotative.
- I remember that 90s rule to create characters for Image Comics (from progressiveboink): 1 - take a pre-existing Marvel or DC Comics character that fat guys would like (The Punisher) 2 - change his name to couple a negatively connotative word (blood, die, death) with a second but completely unrelated negatively connotative word (shot, hard, blow) 3 - draw scribbles all over him Matthew Vaughn’s Next Film to be Adaptation of Bloodshot? | /Film
- The suppression of colour made it possible to control the aesthetic qualities of the picture and helped to structure its connotative meaning.
- His lectures were rhetorical, emotive and connotative.
- Employing the concept of ‘tribe’ is beset with denotative and connotative baggage.
- Stories are never just arguments; they work most effectively by being neither didactic nor definitive: they attract and hold our attention because they are connotative not denotative.
- I sometimes stood shoulder to shoulder with meaningful people I have referred to in my lifetime as "colored," then "negro," then "black," now "African-American" -- connotative acknowledgment in those words of the evolving social changes in our country, despite the occasional throwbacks. Lea Lane: On MLK's Birthday: Racism Now, Remembering Racism Then
- The suppression of colour made it possible to control the aesthetic qualities of the picture and helped to structure its connotative meaning.
- Provocations include not only the lack of grammar, but highly disjunctive and often obscure use of line breaks which abandon denotative and connotative functions of words in favour of half swallowed or choked sounds.
- Even more generously, he helps me (and with a helper like White I need no hinderers) to say what he wants me to mean by "connotative," but what I did not say and did not mean when I used the term. Letting Go
