connote Meaning, Definition & Usage

verb express or state indirectly
imply.
verb involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic
predicate.
- solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well

See Connotate, and Note.

imperfect & past participle Connoted; present participle & verbal noun Connoting

To mark along with; to suggest or indicate as additional; to designate by implication; to include in the meaning; to imply.
Good, in the general notion of it, connotes also a certain suitableness of it to some other thing. South.
(Logic) To imply as an attribute.
The word "white" denotes all white things, as snow, paper, the foam of the sea, etc., and ipmlies, or as it was termed by the schoolmen, connotes, the attribute "whiteness." J. S. Mill.