significant

  • (a) 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,
  • (s) fairly large
    • won by a substantial margin
    substantial,
  • (a) 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
  • (s) rich in significance or implication
    • a meaning look
    meaning, pregnant,

Synonyms

important substantial meaning pregnant

Antonyms

unimportant insignificant nonsignificant

See also

important of import meaningful

Words of close approximity

significant digit significant figure significantly significant other