Adjective
1. important in effect or meaning;
2. fairly large;
3. too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicating a systematic relation;
4. rich in significance or implication;
Penicillin was an extremely significant medical discovery.
I haven't noticed any significant reduction in the performance of my car since switching to unleaded fuel.
Some of the most significant issues were neglected.
I don't think that is significant.
The move stopped the pound's decline but failed to bring about a significant rally.
This is a significant contribution to knowledge.
There are no significant differences between the education systems of the two countries.
a highly significant discovery
The research is too unfocused to have any significant impact.
Today's Security Council resolution will be a significant success for American diplomacy.
The offer of talks with Moscow marks a significant change from the previous western position.
When she died in 1946, her friends wanted to memorialize her in some significant way.
Between 70 and 80 councils face significant spending cuts or capping next year.
Britain's negotiators had ensured that the treaty which resulted was a significant change in direction.
It was clear that there was significant support for the Islamists.
A significant exhibition of contemporary sculpture will be on view at the Portland Gallery.
The accident is already shaping up as a significant environmental disaster.
Susan nodded sagely as if what I had said was profoundly significant.
There were significant similarities between mother and son.
You can look forward to a significant cash return by saving from as little as £10 a month.
The results are not statistically significant.
He is seen as having made a significant contribution towards the eradication of corruption.
Police said there had been a significant development in the case.
Mrs Bycraft gave Rose a significant glance.
The laxity of export control authorities has made a significant contribution to the problem.
There was a significant decline in the size of the business as the company transitioned to an intellectual property company.
The mass media have been vested with significant power as social and political agents in modern developed societies.
significant, important, momentous
adj.
significative premonitory symbolic telling implicative boding prognostic foreboding prophetic pithy indicative suggestive pregnant ominous profound allusive portentous diagnostic connotative symptomatic representational deep meaningful meaning
adj.
revealing secret informative understood esoteric private surreptitious telling effective demonstrative forceful covert exhibitive expressive inside clandestine
adj.
chief heavy vital major weighty material note decisive great principal primary outstanding prime substantial momentous exigent pressing valuable necessary leading of big foremost important considerable consequential influential remarkable powerful notable urgent fateful critical crucial prominent serious emergent large sizable noteworthy grave essential eminent main historic eventful
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