signifying

[ sig-nuh-fahy-ing ]

noun

1. sounding ¹( def 4 )

Other Words From

• un·signi·fying adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of signifying¹

First recorded in 1955–60; signify + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

David Foster Wallace even named a chapter in his tome Brief Interviews with Hideous Men “Signifying Nothing.”

From The Daily Beast

It was a cosmic rout, signifying the end of an order, even the death of Spanish football as it is currently played.

From The Daily Beast

The city roiled with place names signifying race trouble: Bensonhurst, Howard Beach, the Central Park Jogger, Crown Heights.

From The Daily Beast

So instead, Republican senators have launched an attack on Hagel filled with sound and fury but signifying very little.

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If the Arabs had just accepted Zionism (signifying their own dispossession), then World War II might have turned out differently.

From The Daily Beast

It is not simply acquiescing in that Covenant in the heart, but signifying that acquiescence in a positive service.

From Project Gutenberg

The prophet sends chains to divers kings, signifying that they must bend their necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon.

From Project Gutenberg

The acceptance of a bill is the signifying by the drawee that he has assented to the drawer's order, and must be in writing.

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Bearo, first signifying the grove itself, might easily come to mark the shelter which the grove afforded.

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These streams are also variously interpreted as signifying the four evangelists, and the four rivers of paradise.

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Related Words

• allegorical
• descriptive
• fanciful
• florid
• metaphoric
• metaphorical
• pictorial