Connote vs Difficult - What's the difference?
connote | difficult |
To signify beyond its literal or principal meaning.
To possess an inseparable related condition; to imply as a logical consequence.
To express without overt reference; to imply.
To require as a logical predicate to consequence.
Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
* (Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)
* 2008 , Daniel Goleman, Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama (ISBN 0307483762), page 199:
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
As verbs the difference between connote and difficult
is that connote is to signify beyond its literal or principal meaning while difficult is (obsolete|transitive) to make difficult; to impede; to perplex.As an adjective difficult is
hard, not easy, requiring much effort.connote
English
Verb
(connot)- Racism often connotes an underlying fear or ignorance.
- Poverty connotes hunger.
Synonyms
* (possess an inseparable condition) entail, imply * (express without overt reference) entail, imply * (require as a logical predicate) predicateSee also
* denoteAnagrams
* ----difficult
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, and difficult world, alone.
- In adults, the same kind of anger has been studied in people trying to solve a very difficult math problem. Though the tough math problem is very frustrating, there is an active attempt to solve the problem and meet the goal.
Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.