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