Dictionary Definition
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]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
- Signifying something; carrying meaning.
- Having a covert or hidden meaning
- Having a noticeable or major effect; notable
- That was a very significant step in the right direction.
- Reasonably large in number or amount
- Having a low probability of occurring by chance (for example, having high correlation and thus likely to be related).
Translations
having noticeable effect
- Chinese: 重要的, 有意義的
- Czech: významný
- Finnish: merkittävä, merkityksellinen
- French: significatif
- German: signifikant, bedeutend
- Japanese: (ichijirushii)
- Portuguese: significativo
- Spanish: importante, significativo
- Swedish: signifikant, betydelsefullt
Extensive Definition
Significance can refer to:
- the extent to which something matters; importance
- meaning
- Regarding meaning of life, it may be similar to ultimate importance
- In semiotics, the meaning assigned to a sign.
- statistical significance, the probability that a result is not due to chance
- significant figures or significant digits, the precision of a numerical value
- significance (policy debate), a stock issue in policy debate.
significant in German: Signifikanz
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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