| significant | | |
| adj. | 1. important, significant | important in effect or meaning.; "a significant change in tax laws"; "a significant change in the Constitution"; "a significant contribution"; "significant details"; "statistically significant" |
| ~ important, of import | of great significance or value.; "important people"; "the important questions of the day" |
| ~ meaningful | having a meaning or purpose.; "a meaningful explanation"; "a meaningful discussion"; "a meaningful pause" |
| ~ momentous | of very great significance.; "deciding to drop the atom bomb was a very big decision"; "a momentous event" |
| ~ epoch-making, epochal | highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era.; "epochal decisions made by Roosevelt and Churchill"; "an epoch-making discovery" |
| ~ world-shaking, world-shattering, earthshaking | sufficiently significant to affect the whole world.; "earthshaking proposals"; "the contest was no world-shaking affair"; "the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering" |
| ~ evidential, evidentiary | serving as or based on evidence.; "evidential signs of a forced entry"; "its evidentiary value" |
| ~ fundamental, profound | far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something.; "the fundamental revolution in human values that has occurred"; "the book underwent fundamental changes"; "committed the fundamental error of confusing spending with extravagance"; "profound social changes" |
| ~ large | fairly large or important in effect; influential.; "played a large role in the negotiations" |
| ~ monumental | of outstanding significance.; "Einstein's monumental contributions to physics" |
| ~ noteworthy, remarkable | worthy of notice.; "a noteworthy fact is that her students rarely complain"; "a remarkable achievement" |
| ~ probative, probatory | tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation.; "evidence should only be excluded if its probative value was outweighed by its prejudicial effect" |
| ~ operative | effective; producing a desired effect.; "the operative word" |
| ~ portentous, prodigious | of momentous or ominous significance.; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"; "a prodigious vision" |
| adj. | 2. significant, substantial | fairly large.; "won by a substantial margin" |
| ~ considerable | large or relatively large in number or amount or extent or degree.; "a considerable quantity"; "the economy was a considerable issue in the campaign"; "went to considerable trouble for us"; "spent a considerable amount of time on the problem" |
| adj. | 3. significant | 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" |
| ~ statistics | a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters. |
| adj. | 4. meaning, pregnant, significant | rich in significance or implication.; "a meaning look" |
| ~ meaningful | having a meaning or purpose.; "a meaningful explanation"; "a meaningful discussion"; "a meaningful pause" |
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