Rocky Carroll

I think 'director' is a very broad term. I like to think of myself as the head collaborator, not the director, because I think, for a lot of people, 'director' connotes giving orders and telling people what to do.

American Actor

William Barr

Valor' is a word we don't commonly hear. People can show courage and bravery confronting many different challenges in life. But 'valor' connotes willingly putting oneself in mortal danger to protect others.

American Public Servant

David Petraeus

Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you're trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out.

American General

Tony Evans

In Scripture, a name often connotes purpose, authority, makeup, and character. In fact, a person's name is frequently seen as an equivalent of that person.

Moshe Safdie

Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.

Israeli Architect

Roger Stone

The ascot connotes informality. It is something one might wear at a cocktail party in one's own flat but is not something you wear out in public.

American Politician

Margo Jefferson

Melancholy' is prettier than 'depression'; it connotes a kind of nocturnal grace. Makes one feel more innocently beleaguered.

American Critic

Bret Stephens

Before the word 'resignation' became a euphemism for being fired, it connoted a sense of public integrity and personal honor.

American Journalist

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

Indian Leader

John Glenn

Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing.

American Astronaut

Words that connote often carry emotional weight, hinting at feelings or attitudes beyond plain definitions.

Emotional Weight

Don't use 'connote' when you mean the literal, primary meaning of the word, only for hidden or additional meanings.

Avoid Literals

'Connote' is about subtle, often unspoken suggestions that a word invokes, not direct statements.

Subtlety Matters

Using 'connote', think about what ideas or feelings automatically come to mind with certain words.

Idea Association

Remember connotations are additional meanings, they should not be confused with a word's explicit definition.

Implicit Meanings

Words can connote positive or negative attributes, so choose them to convey the right feeling.

Positive or Negative

 gold jewelery or wrought iron gates, would be known communally as artisans, and their works considered minor or decorative arts, connoting an inferior status and solidifying the distinction between art and craft that still persists in the Western world.

Is there a difference...

 It's a mouthful to say. It might help if you break it up into three multi, potential, and ite. You can also use one of the other terms that connote the same idea, such as polymath, the Renaissance person.