connotatory

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adjective

Serving to connote.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectiveconnotatory (not comparable)
  1. not comparableServing to connote.

    He sees music as centrally combinatory and peripherally connotatory, whereas poetry is the other way round: music and poetry are in this sense mirror images of one another.

    1998, Nicholas Cook, Analysing Musical Multimedia, page 119

Origin

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APA

connotatory. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/connotatory

MLA

“connotatory.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/connotatory. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “connotatory,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/connotatory.

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