transitive verb. To suggest or imply in addition to literal meaning.

transitive verb. To have as a related or attendant condition.

Same as connotate.

To signify; mean; imply.

[This meaning was introduced by J. S. Mill. A word connotes those attributes which its predication of a subject asserts that that subject possesses. But connote is now often loosely used in such a sense that any attribute known to be possessed by all the objects denoted by a term is said to be connoted by that term. Mill discountenances this use of the word.

Synonyms Note, Denote, Connote, See the definitions of these words.

To have a meaning or signification in connection with another word.

transitive verb. To mark along with; to suggest or indicate as additional; to designate by implication; to include in the meaning; to imply.

transitive verb. To imply as an attribute.

verb. To signify beyond its literal or principal meaning.

verb. To possess an inseparable related condition; to imply as a logical consequence.

verb. To express without overt reference; to imply.

verb. To require as a logical predicate to consequence.

verb. involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic

verb. express or state indirectly

connoted  connoting  

evince  express  imply  show  

Capote  Choate  Vote  afloat  bloat  

add up to  allegorize  allude to  approve  argue  

connoted  connotes  connoting