'meaningful' definitions:
Definition of 'meaningful'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Having a meaning or purpose; "a meaningful explanation"; "a meaningful discussion"; "a meaningful pause" [ant: meaningless, nonmeaningful]
Definition of 'meaningful'
From: GCIDE
- meaningful \meaningful\ adj. Having a meaning or purpose; having significance; as, a meaningful explanation; a meaningful discussion; a meaningful pause; to live a meaningful life. Opposite of meaningless. [Narrower terms: comprehensible, understandable; {indicative, significative, suggestive ; {meaty, substantive ; purposeful] Also See: purposeful, significant, important. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'meaningful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- allegorical,
- associational,
- augural,
- big,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- consequential,
- considerable,
- deep,
- definable,
- demonstrative,
- denominative,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- designative,
- diagnostic,
- eloquent,
- emblematic,
- evidential,
- exhibitive,
- expressive,
- extended,
- extensional,
- facund,
- figural,
- figurative,
- forerunning,
- foreshadowing,
- foreshowing,
- foretokening,
- forewarning,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- graphic,
- heavy with meaning,
- identifying,
- ideographic,
- idiosyncratic,
- imaginative,
- implicative,
- important,
- indicating,
- indicative,
- indicatory,
- individual,
- intelligible,
- intensional,
- interpretable,
- intuitive,
- material,
- meaning,
- meaty,
- metaphorical,
- momentous,
- monitory,
- naming,
- pathognomonic,
- peculiar,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- precursive,
- precursory,
- predictive,
- prefigurative,
- pregnant,
- preindicative,
- premonitory,
- presageful,
- presaging,
- prognostic,
- prognosticative,
- readable,
- referential,
- relevant,
- representative,
- rich,
- semantic,
- semiotic,
- sententious,
- serious,
- signalizing,
- significant,
- significative,
- signifying,
- sober,
- substantial,
- substantive,
- suggestive,
- symbolic,
- symbolistic,
- symbological,
- symptomatic,
- symptomatologic,
- telling,
- transferred,
- typical,
- valid,
- vivid,
- warning,
- weighty