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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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sizeable
English
Adjective
sizeable (comparative more sizeable, superlative most sizeable)
- (Britain, alternative in Canada) Alternative spelling of sizable
- 2015, Daniel Taylor, Manchester City’s Sergio Agüero too good for Chelsea as Diego Costa labours (in The Guardian, 16 August 2015)[1]
- City look stronger, fitter and more motivated than last season and even at this early stage the gap feels like a sizeable advantage.
- 2015, Daniel Taylor, Manchester City’s Sergio Agüero too good for Chelsea as Diego Costa labours (in The Guardian, 16 August 2015)[1]
Derived terms
- sizeableness
- sizeably
- unsizeable
Anagrams
- seizable
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