Crossword-Solution: DENOTIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Denotive | a. | Serving to denote. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “DENOTIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Serving to indicate | 1 answer |
| A PATTERN OF SYMPTOMS INDICATIVE OF SOME DISEASE | 10 answers |
| Indicative | 63 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ECZMEA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DENOTIVE (5)
What is now needed is a rule of some kind leading scholars to use the same terms for the same things, and it would seem to matter little in the case of linguistic stocks what the nomenclature is, provided it becomes denotive and universal.
These examples illustrate the general characteristics of Indian nouns; they are excessively connotive; a simply denotive name is rarely found.
There are special reasons for the indefiniteness of Indian nomenclature: The aborigines were at the time of discovery, and indeed most of them remain today, in the prescriptorial stage of culture, i.e., the stage in which ideas are crystallized, not by means of arbitrary symbols, but by means of arbitrary associations,(18) and in this stage names are connotive or descriptive, rather than denotive as in the scriptorial stage.
The Mandans, on the Upper Missouri, have many words of undoubted Armorican origin in their vocabulary,[4] just as the Chiapenec, of Central America, contains its principal words denotive of deity, family relations, and many conditions of life that are identically the same as in the Hebrew,[5] the name of father, son, daughter, God, king, and rich being essentially the same in the two languages.
Fritz noticed what effect his thoughtless shot had had, and gave vent to a low, peculiar whistle, denotive of surprise.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1971–2003).