Associations to the word «Connote»

Wiktionary

CONNOTE, verb. (transitive) To signify beyond its literal or principal meaning.
CONNOTE, verb. (transitive) To possess an inseparable related condition; to imply as a logical consequence.
CONNOTE, verb. (intransitive) To express without overt reference; to imply.
CONNOTE, verb. (intransitive) To require as a logical predicate to consequence.

Dictionary definition

CONNOTE, verb. Express or state indirectly.
CONNOTE, verb. Involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic; "solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky