Practising Class VII English: 'Positive and negative connotation' (2024)

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What are positive and negative connotations in English? ›

Connotation is the feeling that is attached to a word or phrase. Connotation can elicit negative, positive, or neutral feelings and emotions. Negative connotation is the bad feeling or emotion that is connected to a word. Positive connotation is the good feeling or emotion that is connected to a word.

If something has a positive connotation, it will evoke warm feelings. On the other hand, something with negative connotation will make person feel unpleasant. Most words don't have negative or positive connotations. They are only negative or positive through their context.

Students try to match positive words on the Student A worksheet with similar or opposite negative words on the Student B worksheet, firstly by reading out the words with the intonation that seems to match their meanings, then by reading out the sentences given to show context to check.

A unique object has a more positive connotation. Unique and peculiar both denote unusualness. However, unique suggests something is special, while peculiar suggests something is strange or weird.

For example, words such as determined, inquisitive, dedicated, and spirited all have positive connotations.

Positive numbers can be written with or without a plus sign. b. Negative numbers are always written with a negative sign. When solving problems with positive and negative numbers, it is important to think about how far from 0 the number is and in what direction.

A negative connotation is a word, sign, or object that we regard with a “bad association.” For example, a “red X” is something we regard with a negative connotation because we associate it with failure. Negative connotations are used in writing to influence tone and diction.

A word that encompasses both positive and negative aspects is "ambivalent." Ambivalence refers to having mixed feelings or contradictory attitudes toward something. It implies that there are both positive and negative elements associated with the subject in question.

What are 5 examples of denotation? ›

While positive words stimulate the brain's frontal lobes, negative words trigger increased activity in the amygdala, which is the fear center of the brain. In turn, this can cause a partial shutdown of the reasoning and logic centers located in the frontal lobes.

Words can have a positive, negative, or neutral connotation. Positive connotation is the good feeling that is attached to a word or phrase, negative connotation is the bad feeling.

There are three different types of connotation: positive, negative, and neutral; and all three are essential to understanding the meaning of connotation in English.

While smiling is perceived as a positive emotion most of the time, there are many cultures that perceive smiling as a negative expression and consider it unwelcoming. Too much smiling can be viewed as a sign of shallowness or dishonesty.