Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having meaning, function, or purpose.
- adj. Fraught with meaning; significant: A meaningful glance. See Synonyms at expressive.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Full of meaning; significant.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having meaning, significant.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having a meaning or purpose; having significance. Opposite of
meaningless .
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having a meaning or purpose
Etymologies
- meaning + -ful (Wiktionary)
Examples
“When I first heard the phrase "meaningful adjacencies," I had no idea how powerful the concept would prove to be.”
“One of the things I always teach my students is to project themselves into what I call the meaningful life.”
“The great Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung coined the term “synchronicity” to define what he called meaningful coincidences in your life.”
“BLITZER: President Obama says the negotiators at the climate change summit in Copenhagen have reached what he calls a meaningful and unprecedented breakthrough.”
“A short while ago, the president announced what he called a meaningful and unprecedented agreement.”
“He has announced what he calls a meaningful climate change deal with China and other nations in Copenhagen.”
“Obama's health plan requires employers to offer what he calls meaningful coverage or contribute to a national fund to help people who can't afford health care pay for it.”
“Obama health care plan requires employers to offer what he calls meaningful coverage or contribute to a national fund that would help people who can't afford health care pay for it.”
“COOPER: A source has told CNN that the Iraq Study Group's going to recommend a gradual but what they call meaningful reduction of U.S. troops as early as January.”
“He concluded his presentation by congratulating the audience for asking what he called meaningful questions about the superintendent search.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘meaningful’.
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SCIE - publications
The vocabulary of scientific paper submission
italicise, reference, ISBN, square bracket, running head, printing process, peer review, ASL, retrievable, lexical, publishable, et alia and 188 more...
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::: Words I llike the DEFINITIONS of :::
The dichotomy of a word .... and yes *dichotomy* would be on this very list.
inflection, syntax, morpheme, oneiric, phantasmagoria, poetess, convalescence, thoughtful, sober, searching, deep, meaningful and 1 more...
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meaning
bemean, demean, meaningful, meaningless, meant, intermean, misdemeanor, means, cadmean, meanwhile, permeance, idumean and 59 more...
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EN - autological words and phrases
Words and phrases expressing a property which they also possess themselves: "noun" is a noun, "English" is English, etc. If W means W AND W is (a) W, then W is an autological item. Very often but n...
noun, polysyllabic, abbrv., word, common, English, lovely, sesquipedalian, heterological, short, term, terminus technicus and 63 more...
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writing first chapter
revolve, vital, necessity, depict, archery, indegenous, native, lacrosse, similarly, recess, composition, indicator and 91 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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a few of my favorite words
these are some of my favorite words...
brilliant, delicious, lovely, ever, with, present, here, light, radiant, bright, beauty, live and 209 more...
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eye-ful(l)
eyeful, I-ful, i beamful, eifel
reckful, soulful, awful, aweful, presentful, nowful, mindful, zestful, apful, fruitful, tankful, thankful and 62 more...
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Reflexive words
Words that describe themselves (at least as displayed below). Also called autological or homological words, as listed by dann and tthorley.
sereneness, undulate, fidgety, fijiti, narrow, this, splendacious, ugly, short, terse, sesquipedalian, spellable and 67 more...
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March10th
Vocabulary discussed from a talk by Nigel Marsh about work-life balance.
take stock, time out, punish, thorny, wretched, weakling, rather, whether, startled, warrior, worrier, timeframe and 9 more...
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delusions of reference
words stumbled upon
meaningful, phantasmagoric, quixotic, muse, paradise, delusions of refe..., ideas of reference, love, impulsive, somnolence
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FilthyFragger's Words
debauchery, seduction, freak, sex, clarity, elusive, conversant, foyer, reminisce, meaningful, interesting, lost and 4 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for meaningful.
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