Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having or expressing a meaning; meaningful.
- adj. Having or expressing a covert meaning; suggestive: a significant glance. See Synonyms at expressive.
- adj. Having or likely to have a major effect; important: a significant change in the tax laws.
- adj. Fairly large in amount or quantity: significant casualties; no significant opposition.
- adj. Statistics Of or relating to observations or occurrences that are too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicate a systematic relationship.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Signifying something; conveying a meaning; having a purport; expressive; implying some character, and not merely denotative: as, a significant word or sound.
- Serving as a sign or indication; having a special or covert meaning; suggestive; meaning: as, a significant gesture; a significant look.
- Important; notable; weighty; more strictly, important for what it indicates, but also, often, important in its consequences: opposed to insignificant: as, a significant event.
- n. That which is significant; a meaning, sign, or indication.
Wiktionary
- adj. Signifying something; carrying meaning.
- adj. Having a covert or hidden meaning
- adj. Having a noticeable or major effect; notable
- adj. Reasonably large in number or amount
- adj. statistics Having a low probability of occurring by chance (for example, having high correlation and thus likely to be related).
- n. That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Fitted or designed to signify or make known somethingl having a meaning; standing as a sign or token; expressive or suggestive.
- adj. Deserving to be considered; important; momentous.
- n. That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicating a systematic relation
- adj. important in effect or meaning
- adj. fairly large
- adj. rich in significance or implication
Etymologies
- From Latin significans, present participle of significare, from signum, "sign", + ficare, "do" or "make", variant of facere. (Wiktionary)
- Latin significāns, significant-, present participle of significāre, to signify; see signify. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The SEC's proposal asks questions about whether the SEC should define the term "significant error.”
“If the commission were to define the term significant error ... we believe it would effectively be substituting its judgment" for the credit-rating agencies, S&P President Deven Sharma said in the letter.”
“As I would soon learn, not only was the word significant here but its specific connection with lilies was important as well.”
“The January, 2007 National School Boards Association document, "More Than a Horse Race: A Guide to International Comparisons," contains this sentence: "Throughout this guide the term significant differences always refers to a statistically significant difference meaning the differences between scores are meaningful and did not happen by chance" (emphasis in the original).”
“Is the title significant, or it is something like Manager vs Senior Manager?”
“Well, Norm just used the term significant, am I to take that in the accounting sense,”
“He says we need to go beyond diplomacy and talk about action, which he defined as significant, meaningful, and impactful sanctions against Iran.”
“Where nuclear-armed Pakistan is concerned, facing what he called a significant though small radicalized minority, Biden said there is no choice but to continue current efforts.”
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“Two professors who conducted the study uncovered what they refer to as a significant "democratic deficit," in Michigan.”
“Onnie Carr says he registered his crowd-funding site, WealthForge LLC, as a broker dealer in Virginia, North Carolina, Texas and Colorado at what he describes as a significant expense.”
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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EN - academic vocabulary
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Interesting words
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Adjectives
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Tourism Department. Unit 4
expansion, takeover, reach, challenge, holidaymakers, profit, saturation, profitability, significant, sign, signature, increasingly and 16 more...
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Words with that horrible 'gn' sound
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Tourism Department. Unit 4
takeover, merger, reach, profit, challenge, holidaymakers, saturation, profitability, significant, sign, signature, success and 36 more...
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Adjectives
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GRE Readings
conclusive, derivative, conviction, affected, ample, defiance, bid, conception, demean, converse, compliance, base and 133 more...
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Adjectives
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big book gre
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Adjectives
Impressive growth..., outstanding, significant, an ailing person ..., sick, a humble person -..., excessive hours -..., extreme, enourmous, a publicised tour..., advertised, undue - чрезмерный and 5 more...
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Words
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