'connote' definitions:

Definition of 'connote'

(from WordNet)
verb
Express or state indirectly [syn: imply, connote]
verb
Involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic; "solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well" [syn: connote, predicate]

Definition of 'connote'

From: GCIDE
  • connote \con*note"\ (k[o^]n*n[=o]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. connoted; p. pr. & vb. n. connoting.] [See connotate, and cote.]
  • 1. To mark along with; to suggest or indicate as additional; to designate by implication; to include in the meaning; to imply. [1913 Webster]
  • Good, in the general notion of it, connotes also a certain suitableness of it to some other thing. --South. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Logic) To imply as an attribute. [1913 Webster]
  • The word "white" denotes all white things, as snow, paper, the foam of the sea, etc., and ipmlies, or as it was termed by the schoolmen, connotes, the attribute "whiteness." --J. S. Mill. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'connote'

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