meaningful
/ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fl̩/US/ˈmi.nɪŋ.fl̩/
meaningful adjective: having meaning, significant.
Adjective
meaningful (comparative more meaningful, superlative most meaningful)
- Having meaning, significant.
- I think we made a meaningful contribution to this project today.
- But the Danes remained resolute in defence - largely thanks to a spirited display by captain Daniel Agger - and they went ahead with their first meaningful attack.2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2025
- Full of implication; heavy with unstated meaning.
- "So you enjoyed yourself, did you," she said, with a meaningful smile.
- "This baby is the one that counts. I dare say Polly here wouldn't want any other, would you, Polly?"
"This baby, this baby," said Polly.
Wolcott gave Peter Horn a meaningful look. Horn interpreted it correctly. This baby or no more Polly ever again. This baby or Polly would be in a quiet room...1948, Ray Bradbury, Tomorrow's Child
meaningful meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
meaningful in Hindi
- having meaning, significant
- सार्थक sārthak, अर्थपूर्ण arthapūrṇ
meaningful in Tamil
- பொருளுள்ள
meaningful in Marathi
- अर्थपूर्ण
meaningful in Urdu
- اہم, پرمعنی
More languagesFewer languages
- meaningful in Bengali
- অর্থপূর্ণ, ইঙ্গিতপূর্ণ
- meaningful in Telugu
- అర్థవంతమైన arthavantamaina
- meaningful in Malayalam
- അർത്ഥപൂർണ്ണമായ, അർത്ഥഗർഭമായ, സാർത്ഥ, അർത്ഥാന്വിത
- meaningful in Kannada
- ಅರ್ಥಪೂರ್ಣವಾದ, ಅರ್ಥಗರ್ಭಿತವಾದ, ಅರ್ಥವತ್ತಾದ, ಅರ್ಥೈಸಬಹುದಾದ
- meaningful in Punjabi
- ਅਰਥਪੂਰਨ, ਸਾਰਥਕ
- meaningful in Gujarati
- અર્થપૂર્ણ, અર્થસભર, સાર્થક
- meaningful in Odia
- ଅର୍ଥପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ, ଅର୍ଥବହ
- meaningful in Arabic
- ذُو مَعْنًى ḏū maʕnan
- meaningful in Indonesian
- berarti
- meaningful in Vietnamese
- có ý nghĩa
Examples of meaningful in a sentence
- As the sun darted forth his beams, she darted a meaningful glance at me.
- You can make this program code more legible by using meaningful variable names.
- We need to trawl through the data to find meaningful patterns.
Synonyms of meaningful
Antonyms
Forms of meaningful
| comparative | more meaningful |
|---|---|
| superlative | most meaningful |
Origin of meaningful
From meaning + -ful.
Words formed from meaningful
- deep and meaningful
- meaningfulish
- meaningfully
- meaningfulness
- meaningfulsome
- nonmeaningful
- submeaningful
- unmeaningful
Questions about meaningful
- What does meaningful mean?
- Meaningful means having meaning, significant.
- What is meaningful in Hindi?
- Meaningful in Hindi is सार्थक (sārthak), अर्थपूर्ण (arthapūrṇ). See Meaningful meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is meaningful?
- Meaningful is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce meaningful?
- Meaningful is pronounced /ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fl̩/ (UK).
Words near meaningful in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: meaningful (page history and authors); meaningful (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); meaningful (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); meaningful (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); meaningful (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); meaningful (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); meaningful (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); meaningful (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); meaningful (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); meaningful (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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