English Online Dictionary. What means significant? What does significant mean?
English
Etymology
From Latin significans, present participle of significare, from signum (“sign”) + ficare (“do, make”), variant of facere.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt/
- (US) IPA(key): /sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kənt/, /sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.ɡənt/
Adjective
significant (comparative more significant, superlative most significant)
- Signifying something; carrying meaning.
- Synonym: meaningful
- Having a noticeable or major effect.
- Synonym: notable
- Reasonably large in number or amount.
- Having a covert or hidden meaning.
- (statistics) Having a low probability of occurring by chance (for example, having high correlation and thus likely to be related).
- (mathematics) Of a digit or figure, see significant figure.
Synonyms
Sense 1 (meaningful):
- important
Antonyms
- insignificant
- ignorable
- negligible
- slight
Derived terms
Related terms
- significance
- significand
- signify
Translations
Noun
significant (plural significants)
- That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.
References
- “significant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Catalan
Verb
significant
- gerund of significar
Latin
Verb
significant
- third-person plural present active indicative of significō