'Significant' definitions:
Definition of 'significant'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Important in effect or meaning; "a significant change in tax laws"; "a significant change in the Constitution"; "a significant contribution"; "significant details"; "statistically significant" [syn: significant, important] [ant: insignificant, unimportant]
adjective
Fairly large; "won by a substantial margin" [syn: significant, substantial]
adjective
Too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicating a systematic relation; "the interaction effect is significant at the .01 level"; "no significant difference was found" [ant: nonsignificant]
adjective
Rich in significance or implication; "a meaning look" [syn: meaning(a), pregnant, significant]
Definition of 'Significant'
From: GCIDE
- Significant \Sig*nif"i*cant\, n. That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
- In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Significant'
From: GCIDE
- Significant \Sig*nif"i*cant\, a. [L. significans, -antis, p. pr. of significare. See Signify.]
- 1. Fitted or designed to signify or make known something having a meaning; standing as a sign or token; expressive or suggestive; as, a significant word or sound; a significant look. [1913 Webster]
- It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, but not efficient. --Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Deserving to be considered; important; momentous; as, a significant event. [1913 Webster]
- Significant figures (Arith.), the figures which remain to any number, or decimal fraction, after the ciphers at the right or left are canceled. Thus, the significant figures of 25,000, or of .0025, are 25. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'significant'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute,
- adducible,
- admissible,
- allegorical,
- associational,
- attestative,
- attestive,
- augural,
- authentic,
- based on,
- big,
- big-league,
- big-name,
- big-time,
- bigwig,
- bigwigged,
- certain,
- circumstantial,
- cogent,
- compelling,
- conclusive,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- consequential,
- considerable,
- conspicuous,
- convincing,
- critical,
- cumulative,
- damning,
- decisive,
- definable,
- demonstrative,
- denominative,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- designative,
- determinative,
- diagnostic,
- documentary,
- documented,
- double-barreled,
- earthshaking,
- eloquent,
- emblematic,
- evidence,
- evidential,
- evidentiary,
- ex parte,
- exhibitive,
- expressive,
- extended,
- extensional,
- eye-witness,
- factual,
- facund,
- figural,
- figurative,
- final,
- firsthand,
- forceful,
- forerunning,
- foreshadowing,
- foreshowing,
- foretokening,
- forewarning,
- founded on,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- grand,
- great,
- grounded on,
- hearsay,
- heavy with meaning,
- heavyweight,
- high-powered,
- historic,
- identifying,
- ideographic,
- idiosyncratic,
- implicative,
- implicit,
- important,
- impressive,
- in the limelight,
- incontrovertible,
- index,
- indicating,
- indicative,
- indicatory,
- indisputable,
- individual,
- informative,
- intelligible,
- intensional,
- interpretable,
- intuitive,
- irrefutable,
- irresistible,
- major,
- mark,
- material,
- meaning,
- meaningful,
- meaty,
- meritorious,
- metaphorical,
- momentous,
- monitory,
- name,
- naming,
- notable,
- noteworthy,
- nuncupative,
- outstanding,
- overwhelming,
- pathognomonic,
- peculiar,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- powerful,
- precursive,
- precursory,
- predictive,
- prefigurative,
- pregnant,
- preindicative,
- premonitory,
- presageful,
- presaging,
- presumptive,
- probative,
- prognostic,
- prognosticative,
- prominent,
- readable,
- referential,
- relevant,
- reliable,
- representative,
- rich,
- self-important,
- semantic,
- semiotic,
- sententious,
- sign,
- signal,
- signalizing,
- significative,
- signifying,
- sound,
- substantial,
- substantive,
- suggestive,
- superior,
- sure,
- symbolic,
- symbolistic,
- symbological,
- symptom,
- symptomatic,
- symptomatologic,
- telling,
- to the front,
- token,
- transferred,
- typical,
- valid,
- valuable,
- valued,
- warning,
- weighty,
- world-shaking