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significant
[ sig-nif-i-kuhnt ]
adjective
- important and deserving of attention; of consequence:
Their advice played a significant role in saving my marriage.
Synonyms: weighty, momentous, consequential
- relatively large in amount or quantity:
a significant decrease in revenue.
- having or expressing a meaning; indicative:
a significant symbol of royalty.
- having a special, secret, or disguised meaning; suggestive:
a significant wink.
- Statistics. of or relating to observations that are unlikely to occur by chance and that therefore indicate a systematic cause:
Memory training produced a statistically significant improvement in group performance.
noun
- something significant; a sign.
significant
/ sɪɡˈnɪfɪkənt /
adjective
- having or expressing a meaning; indicative
- having a covert or implied meaning; suggestive
- important, notable, or momentous
- statistics of or relating to a difference between a result derived from a hypothesis and its observed value that is too large to be attributed to chance and that therefore tends to refute the hypothesis
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Derived Forms
- sigˈnificantly, adverb
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Other Words From
- sig·nif·i·cant·ly adverb
- non·sig·nif·i·cant adjective
- su·per·sig·nif·i·cant adjective
- un·sig·nif·i·cant adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of significant1
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Origin of significant1
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Example Sentences
And in either case, “the significant benefit from allowing Wi-Fi hotspots outweighs these concerns.”
This “Sixth Migration” of massive human migration to Texas is the larger story of the book, and it is a significant story.
The town, known in Arabic as Ayn al-Arab, is so significant to ISIS that the group calls it Ayn al-Islam.
Occasionally, guys and girls admitted outright they were looking for a potential significant other.
It was the first significant violence directed toward police after weeks of demonstrations across the city.
In dramatic interpretation the voice is a much more significant feature relatively than is the detail of gesture in pantomime.
And in his heart the name of the poem repeated itself with significant insistence: Unwelcome!
The finely granular variety is the least significant, and is found when the epithelium is only moderately affected.
By all the sounded consonants we have—“Inhuman Civil War;” the latter shorter, more significant, and more easily remembered.
An odd and somewhat unromantic name, but very significant of the circumstances under which she was found.
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