Connotation



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 言外之意, 含义

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Date: 1532
• 1.
  • a. the suggesting of a meaning by a word apart from the thing it explicitly names or describes
  • b. something suggested by a word or thing ; implication <the connotations of comfort that surrounded that old chair
• 2. the signification of something <that abuse of logic which consists in moving counters about as if they were known entities with a fixed connotation — W. R. Inge
• 3. an essential property or group of properties of a thing named by a term in logic — compare denotation
• ? connotational adjective

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