Antonyms of adj connotative

1 sense of connotative

Sense 1
connotative (vs. denotative) -- (having the power of implying or suggesting something in addition to what is explicit)

denotative (vs. connotative), denotive -- (having the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming)
        => appellative, naming (prenominal) -- (inclined to or serving for the giving of names; "the appellative faculty of children"; "the appellative function of some primitive rites")
        => designative -- (serving to designate)
        => extensional -- (defining a word by listing the class of entities to which the word correctly applies)
        => referent -- (having reference; "judgments referent to the indictment")
        => referential -- (referring or pointing to something; "symbols are inherently referential")

Similarity of adj connotative

1 sense of connotative

Sense 1
connotative (vs. denotative) -- (having the power of implying or suggesting something in addition to what is explicit)
       => connotational, connotative of (predicate) -- (of or relating to a connotation)
       => implicative, suggestive -- (tending to suggest or imply; "artifacts suggestive of an ancient society"; "an implicative statement")
       => inferential -- (derived or capable of being derived by inference)
       => intensional -- (used of the set of attributes that distinguish the referents of a given word)
          Also See-> implicit#1, inexplicit#1

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