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Adjective: significant sig'nifukunt- 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 - Fairly large
- substantial - 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" - Rich in significance or implication
- meaning, pregnant
See also: considerable, earthshaking, earth-shattering, epochal, epoch-making, evidential, evidentiary, fundamental, important, large, meaningful, momentous, monumental, noteworthy, of import, operative, portentous, probative, probatory, prodigious, profound, remarkable, significance, significantly, signify, world-shaking, world-shattering Antonym: insignificant, nonsignificant Encyclopedia: Significant |