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Definition of Denotative

1. Adjective. Having the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming.

2. Adjective. In accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term.

Definition of Denotative

1. a. Having power to denote; designating or marking off.

Definition of Denotative

1. Adjective. That denotes or names; designative ¹

2. Adjective. Specific to the primary meaning of a term ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Denotative

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Denotative

denormalize denormalized denormalizes denormalizing denosumab denotable denotate denotated denotates denotating

denotation denotational denotational semantics denotationally denotations denotative (current term) denotatum denote denoted denotee

denotees denotement denotements denotes denoteth denoting denotive denouement denouements denounc't

Literary usage of Denotative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of Deductive Logic for the Use of Students: For the Use of Students by P. K. Ray (1886)
"... the connotative or rather attributive meaning of a term as its direct and explicit meaning, and the denotative meaning as indirect and implicit. § 12. ..."

2. Logic in the Application to Language by Robert Gordon Latham (1856)
"... (denotative).—The Attribute they denote that of Relation. § It is in their convertibility that the peculiar character of the pronouns exists. ..."

3. Mental Evolution in Man, Origin of Human Faculty by George John Romanes (1889)
"In other words, denotative sign-making never begins to occur until indicative sign-making has advanced considerably ; and when denotative sign-making does ..."

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