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significant
Overview of adj significant
The adj significant has 4 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)
1. (19) significant, important -- (important in effect or meaning; "a significant change in tax laws"; "a significant change in the Constitution"; "a significant contribution"; "significant details"; "statistically significant")
2. (9) significant, substantial -- (fairly large; "won by a substantial margin")
3. (3) significant -- (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")
4. (2) meaning, pregnant, significant -- (rich in significance or implication; "a meaning look"; "pregnant with meaning")
Grep of noun significant
significant digit
significant figure
significant other
Antonyms of adj significant
4 senses of significant
Sense 1
significant (vs. insignificant), important
insignificant (vs. significant), unimportant
=> hole-and-corner, hole-in-corner
=> inappreciable
=> light
=> superficial, trivial
Sense 2
significant, substantial
INDIRECT (VIA considerable) -> inconsiderable
Sense 3
significant (vs. nonsignificant)
nonsignificant (vs. significant)
Sense 4
meaning(prenominal), pregnant, significant
INDIRECT (VIA meaningful) -> meaningless, nonmeaningful
Similarity of adj significant
4 senses of significant
Sense 1
significant (vs. insignificant), important
=> momentous
=> epochal, epoch-making
=> earthshaking, world-shaking, world-shattering
=> evidential, evidentiary
=> fundamental, profound
=> large
=> monumental
=> noteworthy, remarkable
=> probative, probatory
=> operative, key
=> portentous, prodigious
Also See> important#1, of import#1; meaningful#1
Sense 2
significant, substantial
=> considerable (vs. inconsiderable)
Sense 3
significant (vs. nonsignificant)
Sense 4
meaning(prenominal), pregnant, significant
=> meaningful (vs. meaningless)
Pertainyms of adj significant
Attributes of adj significant
1 of 4 senses of significant
Sense 1
significant (vs. insignificant), important
=> significance
Domain of adj significant
1 of 4 senses of significant
Sense 3
significant (vs. nonsignificant)
TOPIC>(noun) statistics#1
Domain Terms of adj significant
Familiarity of adj significant
significant used as an adjective is uncommon (polysemy count =4)
Grep of adj significant
insignificant
nonsignificant
significant
Grep of adv significant
significantly
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