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connotatory

connotatory adjective: serving to connote.

Adjective

connotatory (not comparable)

  1. Serving 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 of connotatory

From connote + -atory.

Questions about connotatory

What does connotatory mean?
Connotatory means serving to connote.
What part of speech is connotatory?
Connotatory is an adjective.

Words near connotatory in the dictionary

  1. connotationally
  2. connotationless
  3. connotations
  4. connotative
  5. connotatively
  6. connotatory
  7. connote
  8. connoted
  9. connotes
  10. connoteth
  11. connoting

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