Connotation Game

Connotation is the attitude or emotion that a word causes in someone who reads or hears it. Words can have a positive or negative connotation.

Denotation is the dictionary definition of the word.
Ex: tasty-pleasing to the taste

For example, look at the following sentences.
The meal was delicious.
The meal was edible.

The denotation for delicious is very pleasing to the taste.
The denotation for edible is fit or safe to eat.

Both delicious and edible are synonyms for tasty.

Delicious is a positive connotation causing the reader to imagine a meal that is desirable to eat and is yummy. Edible has a negative connotation causing the reader to think of a meal that is not tasty, but is instead good enough to eat.

Which one would you prefer? Delicious meal or edible meal?

And that's the game. Gut feeling about a word, for example, would you rather be called cheap or thrifty? You could say thrifty because cheap sounds like an insult, or whatever. Get it?
I'll start off.

Would you rather be called fat or plump?
Then you'd come up with your own and so on. Ask if you don't get it. hehehe

plump...lol

weird or idiotic

Weird

High matience or snobby

high matenance...duh

[PygmyPuff]

clumsy or ditzy

Oh, it's hard....hehehe clumsy. XD

mean or hostile

Mean

smart or intelligent?

Ooooh, intelligent!!! Wouldn't it be great to be the female Einstein? hehehe

hate or despise

hate... despise is such a strong word...

love or like?

Ahhh!!! This is so hard!! Ummmm....depends. ok fine! Love. Oh wait no, like. Umm, I'll come back to that later.

bugs or insects

These are not connotations anymore..You guys are taking two things often confused, not synonyms.

Fine...insects. I like that word.

Peaceful or passive?

peaceful

[PygmyPuff]

pebble or stone
(lol)

Hmm...pebble sounds so adorable. I like pebble, although stone describes my personality :)

Rigid or firm?

firm

drunk or wasted?

Drunk.

Big ears or no ears?

What's the synonym in that :/ guys, this ain't a this or that game. eek, big ears.

bright or luminous

Luminous

Selfassured or overconfident?

self-assured.

homosexual or gay. lol

Ummm... I guess homosexual sounds better....

dark or mysterious?

mysterious XD

female or woman?
male or man

Woman

sadness or depression?

Stupid. I am too embracing of knowledge to be ignorant. Emphasis on embracing, (not accepting).

Purple or amethyst?

amethyst, in a way they are two different colors with two different tones. I think it's more like seeing scarlett as a different shade of red. :/ Not sure how to explain. I'm not sure if others agree, but it's how I see it, but that's kind of the point.

obsessed or infatuated

infatuated. lol...

in love or in lust

Ciao

In love, so much prettier, but so often not the case...

Happiness or Joy?

.:Danielle:.

Given the choice, in my position I would have chosen lust. ^-^ hehehe but no, I choose happiness. I kind of think joy only lasts for a few moments, but happiness kind of has the long term thing to it.

lie or fib

Lie, fib sounds like some fancy Italian food.

Obsessive Compulsive or Extremely organized?

Extremely Organized, lol, enough said

Beautiful or pretty?

.:Danielle:.

Beautiful, duh.

Unattractive or hideous?

ooh man, that's, that's really plunging. hehehe unattractive. think of how it would feel if someone walked up to you and called you hideous. I can totes picture Cinderella's stepmom to do that to her. :P

scented or fragranced?

"Many men were killed in World War II"

Annoying or disturbing

annoying

snobby or stuck up

snobby. . . .no wait stuck up. . . no yes no yes no yes. . . .no. . .yes. . .Snobby I reckon

Creepy or threatening. . (ok i probably did that wrong)

(and i call myself an A level english student *sobs quietly*)

Threatening (no puts me in a corner, lol)

Skinny or slim

slim

drug store or pharmacy?

Stalker (giggle)

movies or cinema