adjective
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able to denote; designative
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explicit; overt
Other Word Forms
- denotatively adverb
- denotativeness noun
- nondenotative adjective
- nondenotatively adverb
- undenotative adjective
- undenotatively adverb
Etymology
Origin of denotative
1605–15; < Latin dēnotātus (past participle of dēnotāre to mark out, denote ( def. ) ) + -ive
Vocabulary lists containing denotative
Reading: Literature - High School
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Lesson 7
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Part 3 Literary Terms (Unit 3)
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Example Sentences
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The denotative meanings of these abbreviations vary over a wide range.
From The Guardian • Jun. 6, 2013
It finds that "reality" is a denotative term, a word used to designate indifferently everything that happens.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.
From this eternal word, which is of the nature of the sphota and possesses denotative power, there is produced the object denoted, i.e. this world which consists of actions, agents, and results of action.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 by Thibaut, George
Besides their use in illustrating the denotative force of propositions, these circles may be employed to verify the results of Obversion, Conversion, and the secondary modes of Immediate Inference.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth
To use the phraseology of Harvard and Radcliffe, the Sulphite is connotative, the Bromide denotative.
From Are You a Bromide? The Sulphitic Theory Expounded and Exemplified According to the Most Recent Researches into the Psychology of Boredom Including Many Well-Known Bromidioms Now in Use by Burgess, Gelett
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