What is Connotation?

What is Denotation?

Give an example for each.

Positive and Negative Connotations ... For example, the words childish, childlike and youthful have the same denotative but different connotative meanings. Childish and childlike have a negative connotation as they refer to immature behavior of a person. Whereas, youthful implies that a person is lively and energetic.

Denotation Examples. Denotation refers to the literal, dictionary definition of a word. Many of the words that we use also have feelings and emotions that are associated with them, and this is called connotation ... Shrewd-literally means "having good judgment," but has a negative connotation.

A connotation is an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. An example of it would be "discipline". It has an unhappy connotation of punishment.

A denotation is a literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests. Shrewed literally means having good judgment but has a negative connotation.