connotative
adjective
connotative is an adjective meaning “that implies or suggests something else” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-N-N-O-T-A-T-I-V-E, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does connotative mean?
adjective
- 1
that implies or suggests something else
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of connotative
- more connotative comparative
- most connotative superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is connotative?
Connotative appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Connotative in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense that implies or suggests something else:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | connotatif |
| Portuguese | conotativo |
| Spanish | connotativo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.