significant

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English Vietnamese dictionary

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Advanced English dictionary

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+ adjective
1 large or important enough to have an effect or to be noticed: a highly significant discovery + The results of the experiment are not statistically significant. + There are no significant differences between the two groups of students. + Your work has shown a significant improvement. + These views are held by a significant proportion of the population. + It is significant that girls generally do better in examinations than boys. + The drug has had no significant effect on stopping the spread of the disease.
Antonym: INSIGNIFICANT
2 having a particular meaning: It is significant that he changed his will only days before his death.
3 [usually before noun] having a special or secret meaning that is not understood by everyone
Synonym: MEANINGFUL
a significant look / smile

Thesaurus dictionary

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adj.

1 important, weighty, momentous, consequential, critical, substantial, substantive, noteworthy, notable, valuable, valued, meritorious, outstanding, impressive, historic, relevant, signal:

Appleton made significant contributions to knowledge about the ionosphere

2 meaningful, eloquent, pithy, expressive, pregnant, suggestive, informative:

It is significant that they prefer the term Britain to England, Scotland, and Wales .

Collocation dictionary

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VERBS

be, prove | become | remain | consider sth (as), deem sth, regard sth as, see sth as, think sth, view sth as

The move was regarded as significant in Japan.

ADV.

deeply, extremely, highly, particularly, very | fairly, quite | statistically

These differences are not statistically significant.

PREP.

for

This development proved highly significant for the whole town.

| to

rituals which are deeply significant to Christians

Concise English dictionary

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sɪg'nɪfɪkənt
adj.
+important in effect or meaning
+fairly large
+too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicating a systematic relation
+rich in significance or implication