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- meaning - Connotation vs. Definition - English Language Usage . . .
The definition of connotation I like best is (unusually) from Wikipedia: "Connotation is a subjective cultural and or emotional coloration in addition to the explicit or denotative meaning of any specific word or phrase in a language" The connotation is the emotional and cultural baggage that goes with the word
- connotation - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
One type of change is vocabulary: denotation, connotation, and popularity change with time, usually for no particular reason Sometimes there are identifiable pressures (inmigration, art, sociopolitical trends, etc ), but even when these are identifiable, the result would have been impossible to predict
- What are the connotations of ignorant? - English Language Usage . . .
In fact, this connotation is so obvious to me now that I've remembered the word 'ignore': Oxford English dictionaries Refuse to take notice of or acknowledge; disregard intentionally The word ignore itself was created in the late 15th century from ignorant, which predates it by about a century
- Naïve vs Ignorant - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Naive has a more neutral connotation and generally indicates a person who isn't familiar with the way the world works Naive can sometimes even have a positive connotation and mean someone who hasn't been jaded by the negative realities of the world Naive people are likely to be trusting or unsophisticated
- Is there a neutral word for an olfactory impression?
It is a way to refer abstractly to the act or mechanism, which is what you seem to be trying to do, so that there is no connotation of pleasantness or unpleasantness in the word for what is smelled SOMETIMES YOU WILL ACTUALLY HAVE TO USE THE LANGUAGE TO ESTABLISH A CONTEXT RATHER THAN WASTING TIME SEARCHING FOR THE ELUSIVE "PERFECT" WORD
- Connotes vs Connotates - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
"to signify secondarily," 1590s, from Medieval Latin connotatus, past participle of connotare "signify in addition to the main meaning," a term in logic (see connotation) It is now obsolete, replaced by connote Emphasis mine A Google Ngram backs it up: So, to answer your question, there is no proper usage of the word connotate in modern English
- word choice - Connotations of trite, passé, and cliché - English . . .
Trite definitely also has a negative connotation -- I think all these words do -- but it has an entirely different implication than cliché: something that is trite is something that is not deep or meaningful enough What you think is in style one season may be viewed as passé the next, especially by the hardcore fashionistas
- Does extraordinary, exceptional, outstanding always carry . . .
In other words, while these terms do indeed most often carry a good connotation, they can and will be understood to carry a bad one in the right context My gut feeling is that of the three, outstanding is the one least likely to be associated with a negative connotation (though it will be understood if used in such a context), while both
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