 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
significant
adjective
1: 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: {important}] [ant: {insignificant}]
2: fairly large; "won by a substantial margin" [syn: {substantial}]
3: 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}]
4: rich in significance or implication; "a meaning look";
"pregnant with meaning" [syn: {meaning(a)}, {pregnant}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Significant \Sig*nif"i*cant\, noun
That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.
--Wordsworth.
In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Significant \Sig*nif"i*cant\, adjective [L. significans, -antis, p. pr.
of significare. See {Signify}.]
1. Fitted or designed to signify or make known somethingl
having a meaning; standing as a sign or token; expressive
or suggestive; as, a significant word or sound; a
significant look.
It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were
significant, but not efficient. --Sir W.
Raleigh.
2. Deserving to be considered; important; momentous; as, a
significant event.
{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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
174 Moby Thesaurus words for "significant":
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
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