From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
meaningful \meaningful\ adjective 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]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: having a meaning or purpose; "a meaningful explanation"; "a meaningful discussion"; "a meaningful pause" [ant: {meaningless}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
101 Moby Thesaurus words for "meaningful": 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
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