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Denotative  adj.  Having power to denote; designating or marking off. "Proper names are preeminently denotative; telling us that such as object has such a term to denote it, but telling us nothing as to any single attribute."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Denotative" Quotes from Famous Books



... sound an alarm; beat the drum, sound the trumpets, raise a cry. sign, seal, attest &c. (evidence) 467; underline &c. (give importance to) 642; call attention to &c. (attention) 457; give notice &c. (inform) 527. Adj. indicating &c. v., indicative, indicatory; denotative, connotative; diacritical, representative, typical, symbolic, pantomimic, pathognomonic[obs3], symptomatic, characteristic, demonstrative, diagnostic, exponential, emblematic, armorial; individual &c. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus



Words linked to "Denotative" :   appellative, naming, referential, designative, denotive, referent, denote, explicit, literal, expressed, extensional



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