different between significant vs denotative
significant
English
Etymology
From Latin significans, present participle of significare, from signum (“sign”) + ficare (“do, make”), variant of facere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s???n?.f?.k?nt/
- (US, also) IPA(key): /s???n?.f?.??nt/
Adjective
significant (comparative more significant, superlative most significant)
- Signifying something; carrying meaning.
- Synonym: meaningful
- It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, but not efficient.
- Having a covert or hidden meaning.
- Having a noticeable or major effect.
- Synonym: notable
- Reasonably large in number or amount.
- (statistics) Having a low probability of occurring by chance (for example, having high correlation and thus likely to be related).
Usage notes
- This word may be ambiguous in some situations. In formal writing, care should be taken with comments such as "the difference is significant," because it is not clear without contextual clues whether significant modifies the fact that there is a difference ("notable"), or the difference itself ("large in number or amount"). In some such situations, large and other synonyms may be used in its place.
Synonyms
- important
Antonyms
- insignificant
- ignorable
- negligible
- slight
Related terms
- significance
- significand
- significant other
- signify
Translations
Noun
significant (plural significants)
- That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.
- a. 1850, William Wordsworth, The Egyptian Maid
- And in my glass significants there are
- a. 1850, William Wordsworth, The Egyptian Maid
References
significant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Catalan
Verb
significant
- present participle of significar
Latin
Verb
significant
- third-person plural present active indicative of signific?
significant From the web:
- what significant mean
- what significant event happened in 1966
- what significant event happened at the battles of lexington and concord
- what significant event happened in 1848
- what significant changes happened in 1942
- what significant economic challenge did
- what does significant mean
- what does significantly significant mean
denotative
English
Adjective
denotative (comparative more denotative, superlative most denotative)
- That denotes or names; designative.
- 1989, Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf
- There was still no concept of language (arithmetical symbolism, perhaps, is not a language, is not denotative in the same sense as words).
- 1989, Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf
- Specific to the primary meaning of a term.
- Antonym: connotative
Translations
Anagrams
- detonative
German
Adjective
denotative
- inflection of denotativ:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Adjective
denotative
- feminine plural of denotativo
denotative From the web:
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- what denotation
- what denotations are presented in the title
- what denotative and connotative
- what denotative meaning of owl
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- what definition of purity
- what denotative and connotative meaning of a word
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