Thesaurus results for DENOTATIVE

denotative

adjective

ˈdē-nō-ˌtā-tiv

as in indicative

indicating something a string of absences from this course will be seen as denotative of the student's lack of interest in it

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Recent Examples of denotative Semantic bleaching is another linguistic process whereby the denotative content of a word is stripped away. —

Brandon Tensley, CNN, 10 July 2022 The paragon of such an attempt is something like Jia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror, a work that stands as a denotative record of the social media shift, yet still falls to the same difficulties that characterize other cultural criticism of this type. —

SPIN, 8 Feb. 2022

Recent Examples of Synonyms for denotative

Adjective

One person alone isn’t indicative of UCLA’s wins or losses, Inouye-Perez says.

— Liana Handler, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026
According to Fontaine, the experiment demonstrated that sterile soil supports a flow of electrons indicative of processes that resemble the oxygen-dependent metabolism of the Krebs cycle.

— Siddhant Pusdekar, Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2026