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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Denotative \De*not"a*tive\, adjective Having power to denote; designating or marking off.
Proper names are pre["e]minently denotative; telling us that such as object has such a term to denote it, but telling us nothing as to any single attribute. --Latham.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
denotative
adjective
1: having the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming [syn: {denotive}] [ant: {connotative}]
2: in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term [syn: {explicit}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
61 Moby Thesaurus words for "denotative": allegorical, associational, connotational, connotative, definable, demonstrative, denominative, denotational, designative, diagnostic, emblematic, evidential, exhibitive, expressive, extended, extensional, figural, figurative, full of meaning, full of point, full of substance, identifying, ideographic, idiosyncratic, implicative, indicating, indicative, indicatory, individual, intelligible, intensional, interpretable, meaning, meaningful, meaty, metaphorical, naming, pathognomonic, peculiar, pithy, pointed, pregnant, readable, referential, representative, semantic, semiotic, sententious, signalizing, significant, significative, signifying, substantial, suggestive, symbolic, symbolistic, symbological, symptomatic, symptomatologic, transferred, typical
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