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significant

UK/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt//sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kənt/

significant adjective: signifying something; carrying meaning.

Adjective

significant (comparative more significant, superlative most significant)

  1. Signifying something; carrying meaning.
    • a significant word or sound
    • a significant look
    Synonyms:
    meaningful
  2. Having a noticeable or major effect.
    • That was a significant step in the right direction.
    • The First World War was a significant event.
    Synonyms:
    notable, pregnant
  3. Reasonably large in number or amount.
  4. Having a covert or hidden meaning.
  5. Having a low probability of occurring by chance (for example, having high correlation and thus likely to be related).
  6. Of a digit or figure, see significant figure.

Noun

significant (plural significants)

  1. That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.
    • In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    • And in my glass significants there area. 1850, William Wordsworth, The Egyptian Maid

significant meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

significant in Hindi

significant, noteworthy, notable
ग़ौरतलब ġaurtalab

significant in Tamil

குறிப்பிடத்தக்க, கணிசமான

significant in Marathi

लक्षणीय

significant in Urdu

significant, mental, intellectual, inner, personal
معنوی ma'navī
significant
ٹھوس ṭhos
More languagesFewer languages
significant in Bengali
গুরুত্বপূর্ণ guruttopurno
significant in Malayalam
സാർത്ഥകമായ, അടയാളമായ, പ്രധാനമായ, കാര്യമായ
significant in Kannada
ದೊಡ್ಡ doḍḍa
significant in Gujarati
નોંધપાત્ર
significant in Sanskrit
आर्थिक ārthika
significant in Tagalog
makahulugan
significant in Arabic
هَامّ hāmm
significant in Vietnamese
quan trọng

Examples of significant in a sentence

  • It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, but not efficient.1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC...
  • As evening came on, it grew prematurely dark and cloudy; while the waves acquired that dull indigo tint so significant of ugly weather.1856, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, chapter III, in The Wreck of the Golden Mary, part two, page 99:

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Forms of significant

Adjective
comparativemore significant
superlativemost significant
Noun
pluralsignificants

Origin of significant

From Latin significans, present participle of significare, from signum (“sign”) + ficare (“do, make”), variant of facere.

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Phrases with significant

Questions about significant

What does significant mean?
Significant means signifying something; carrying meaning.
What is significant in Hindi?
Significant in Hindi is ग़ौरतलब (ġaurtalab). See Significant meaning in Hindi.
How do you use significant in a sentence?
It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, but not efficient.
What part of speech is significant?
Significant can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce significant?
Significant is pronounced /sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt/ (UK).

Words near significant in the dictionary

  1. significances
  2. significancies
  3. significancy
  4. significand
  5. significands
  6. significant
  7. significant digit
  8. significant digits
  9. significant figure
  10. significant figures
  11. significant other

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: significant (page history and authors); ग़ौरतलब (Hindi) (page history and authors); significant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); significant (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); معنوی (Urdu) (page history and authors); গুরুত্বপূর্ণ (Bengali) (page history and authors); significant (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ದೊಡ್ಡ (Kannada) (page history and authors); significant (Gujarati, 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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