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

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams