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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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symbolic
English
Etymology
From French symbolique or directly from Latin symbolicus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (sumbolikós, “of or belonging to a symbol”)
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: sym?bo?lic
- Rhymes: -?l?k
Adjective
symbolic (comparative more symbolic, superlative most symbolic)
- Pertaining to a symbol.
- Implicitly representing or referring to another thing.
- a symbolic gesture
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
symbolic From the web:
- what symbolic elements are used in the necklace
- what symbolic meaning
- what symbolic speech is not protected
- what symbolic meaning does the character
- what symbolizes necklace
- what is the symbolic meaning of necklace
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