connotative

How To Use connotative In A Sentence

• A focus on language, connotative and denotative meaning, is especially important in the cultural adaptation process.
• Romantic fanciful thoughts and connotative and elegant idiosyncrasy unfold rich an tender feeling.
• Part I goes on to lay out a fairly detailed theory of terms, including the distinctions between (a) categorematic and syncategorematic terms, (b) abstract and concrete terms, and (c) absolute and connotative terms. William of Ockham
• The term antisocial personality is often used interchangeably with psychopath or sociopath and is connotative of many forms of deviant behavior.
• CONNOTATIVE words, those that suggest more than they say, have more power than ordinary words -- "She _let_ herself be married" expresses more than "She _married_. The Art of Public Speaking
• I would like to use the phrase "family values", but that term has become loaded with connotative political baggage. christoph says: A Different Extremism… On the Rise? « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
• 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.
• If Hexter were more philosophically literate than he appears to be, he might say that when he uses the word "connotative" he has in mind what some philosophers mean by the word "emotive. Letting Go
• ‘Think of all the sexually connotative songs you know,’ said a pal.
• I cannot crawl into the minds of the youngest generation of psychologists to learn whether exceptional still carries what I must regard, personally, to be the unconscionable semantic distortion, both denotative and connotative, introduced a generation ago using "etymological" grounds for justification. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1