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Synonyms for significant
sɪgˈnɪf ɪ kəntsig·nif·i·cant

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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. significant

    Synonyms:
    expressive, momentous, suggestive, indicative, forcible, weighty, symbolical, telling, speaking

    Antonyms:
    inexpressive, meaningless, expressionless, unindicative, mute

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. significant, importantadjective

    important in effect or meaning

    "a significant change in tax laws"; "a significant change in the Constitution"; "a significant contribution"; "significant details"; "statistically significant"

    Synonyms:
    substantial, meaning(a), of import, pregnant, important, authoritative, crucial

    Antonyms:
    inconsiderable, trivial, slight, fragile, hole-and-corner, flimsy, meaningless, thin, insignificant, inappreciable, superficial, nonsignificant, light, hole-in-corner, nonmeaningful, unimportant, tenuous

  2. significant, substantialadjective

    fairly large

    "won by a substantial margin"

    Synonyms:
    substantial, square, hearty, real, pregnant, important, material, substantive, solid, meaning(a), strong, satisfying

    Antonyms:
    inappreciable, hole-in-corner, light, slight, fragile, thin, nonsignificant, meaningless, flimsy, inconsiderable, nonmeaningful, tenuous, unimportant, trivial, hole-and-corner, insignificant, superficial

  3. significantadjective

    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"

    Synonyms:
    meaning(a), important, substantial, pregnant

    Antonyms:
    light, inconsiderable, hole-in-corner, unimportant, insignificant, superficial, tenuous, nonmeaningful, trivial, flimsy, inappreciable, slight, thin, fragile, meaningless, nonsignificant, hole-and-corner

  4. meaning(a), pregnant, significantadjective

    rich in significance or implication

    "a meaning look"

    Antonyms:
    hole-in-corner, nonsignificant, nonmeaningful, hole-and-corner, fragile, unimportant, trivial, inconsiderable, meaningless, slight, inappreciable, superficial, flimsy, thin, insignificant, light, tenuous

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  1. particular

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. significantadjective

    Synonyms:
    betokening, indicative, expressive, pregnant with meaning

  2. significantadjective

    Synonyms:
    important, weighty, momentous

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words5.0 / 2 votes

  1. significantadjective

    Synonyms:
    momentous, important, indicative, significative

    Antonyms:
    insignificant, unimportant, meaningless

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How to use significant in a sentence?

  1. Pete Skold:

    A significant portion of our crops... are earmarked for restaurant sales.

  2. Josh Sullivan:

    The commodity business was a significant drag, not only on valuation but on the resources of the company.

  3. Mark Hamrick:

    If they were to put money on it, I think Las Vegas oddsmakers would be doubling down right now on the soft landing scenario — not to say that’s the base case, per se, but the chances seem to be growing, if anything, the global economic scenario has brightened in recent days and weeks — and we got a significant ray of sunshine with this January employment report, including all the revisions — but that’s not to say that consumers or businesses should be complacent with respect to an eventual risk of a recession.

  4. Philip Goulder:

    HIV adaptation to the most effective immune responses we can make against it comes at a significant cost to its ability to replicate, anything we can do to increase the pressure on HIV in this way may allow scientists to reduce the destructive power of HIV over time.

  5. Mohamed El-Erian:

    It's a really tough policy call, not only do domestic indicators conflict with external ones, but the Fed itself has only a partial handle on the economy - and inevitably so. This is a time of significant policy uncertainty, particularly given that what's on the table is a policy regime change - namely the first interest rate hike in over nine years.


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