English > significant: 4 senses > adjective 1Meaning | Important in effect or meaning / meaning. |
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Examples | - "a significant change in tax laws"
- "a significant change in the Constitution"
- "a significant contribution"
- "significant details"
- "statistically significant"
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Synonym | important |
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Attribute of | significance | The quality of being significant / significant / significant |
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Narrower | earthshaking, world-shaking, world-shattering | sufficiently significant to affect the whole world |
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epochal, epoch-making | Highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era |
evidential, evidentiary | Serving as or based on evidence |
fundamental, profound | Far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something |
large | Fairly large or important in effect |
momentous | Of very great significance |
monumental | Of outstanding significance |
noteworthy, remarkable, notable | worthy of notice |
operative | effective |
portentous, prodigious | Of momentous or ominous significance |
probative, probatory | tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation |
See also | important, of import | Of great significance / significance or value |
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meaningful | Having a meaning / meaning or purpose |
Opposite | insignificant, unimportant | devoid of importance, meaning, or force |
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Spanish | importante, significante, significativo |
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Catalan | important, significant, significatiu |
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Nouns | significance | the quality of being significant / significant / significant |
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Adverbs | significantly | in an important way or to an important degree |
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significantly | in a significant manner |