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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?
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inauspicious
English
Etymology
in- +? auspicious
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n???sp???s/
Adjective
inauspicious (comparative more inauspicious, superlative most inauspicious)
- Not auspicious; ill-omened
- Synonyms: unfortunate, unlucky, unfavorable
- 1595, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, V,iii.
- And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars.
- 1685, John Dryden, The Despairing Lover
- Inauspicious love.
- 1788, John Jay, as Publius, The Federalist, II
- It is not to be wondered at that a government instituted in times so inauspicious, should on experiment be found greatly deficient and inadequate to the purpose it was intended to answer.
Antonyms
- auspicious
Derived terms
- inauspiciously
- inauspiciousness
Translations
References
- “inauspicious”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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