connotation
ಅರ್ಥವನ್ನು
definition
noun
the word “discipline” has unhappy connotations of punishment and repression
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
example
‘Dilettante’ is not a word with a positive 'connotation' in most circles, whereas ‘purist’ is, I think.
But, given the creative skills and imagination of our tinsel town copywriters, the word takes a different 'connotation' altogether.
‘Sanctity’ is a word with a religious 'connotation' ; it means ‘holy or religiously sacred.’
Thus the word carries a 'connotation' of some physical use of the property by the tenant for the purposes of his business.
The word home, for instance, by denotation means only a place where one lives, but by 'connotation' it suggests security, love, comfort, and family.
Like his other performance work, the idea is elegantly simple and full of 'connotation' .
The author criticizes conservatives for attaching a negative 'connotation' of the word ‘liberal’ which he says actually symbolizes progress.
the work functions both by analogy and by 'connotation'
One 'connotation' of the term is that the imbalance must be really serious or exceptional.
Our society often attaches a negative 'connotation' to the word ‘game.’
I use the word in its 'connotation' of an unimpaired or uncorrupted state of affairs.
Today the term rhetoric is generally used to refer only to the form of argumentation, often with the pejorative 'connotation' that rhetoric is a means of obscuring the truth.
Ostensibly neutral, each of these words has a positive 'connotation' in the American political lexicon.
the work functions both by analogy and by 'connotation'
Wouldn't you have to abandon any swear words with sexual 'connotations' to maintain a consistent position?
Seemingly gender-neutral terms such as aggressive and professional have different 'connotations' when applied to men and women.
The term is useful because it is free from some of the acquired 'connotations' of some other terms used for the same or a similar phenomenon.
In spite of the negative 'connotations' contained in the word there are good meanings that should be pondered.
Certainly, there are marked, and perhaps primary, political 'connotations' to such myths.
Gone, too, were the essentially macho male 'connotations' which had informed abstract expressionism, to be replaced by a new lyricism.
But the 'connotations' of the word in English are not completely absent from these images.
The word is often used pejoratively and has similar negative 'connotations' to the word ‘witch’ in medieval Europe.
The word carries serious negative 'connotations' that stretch back to the days of colonial Africa.
While these examples have obvious 'connotations' , some words are ambiguous.
They claim that they are cleansing the word of its negative 'connotations' so that racists can no longer use it to hurt blacks.
Leaving aside the religious 'connotations' of the word, an idol in the realm of pop culture is someone that people look up to and engage with.
Some of their words seemed to carry 'connotations' that I was never able to recognize.
The word carries 'connotations' that we believe are out of keeping with our current knowledge about many kinds of kidney problems.
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