Significant

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Significant \Sig*nif"i*cant\, a. [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.


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              It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were
              significant, but not efficient.       --Sir W.
                                                    Raleigh.
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     2. Deserving to be considered; important; momentous; as, a
        significant event.
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     {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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Significant \Sig*nif"i*cant\, n.
     That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.
     --Wordsworth.
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           In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts. --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  significant
       adj 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 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