full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
Origin of meaningful
First recorded in 1850–55; meaning + -ful
synonym study for meaningful
See expressive.
OTHER WORDS FROM meaningful
mean·ing·ful·ly,adverbmean·ing·ful·ness,noun
Words nearby meaningful
mean distance, meandrous, mean free path, meanie, meaning, meaningful, meaningful relationship, meaningless, mean length of utterance, mean lethal dose, mean life
Murray said the number of digital subscribers is in the tens of thousands range while the revenue earned from that business was not yet a meaningful portion of the publication’s overall revenue.
Fortune Connect is bringing its conference business to a larger audience, with a higher price tag|Kayleigh Barber|September 15, 2020|Digiday
She leads all rookies1 in block percentage, she’s third in effective field-goal percentage, and she’s playing meaningful minutes for a Seattle team that leads the WNBA.
Which Players Have A Shot At Becoming WNBA Rookie Of The Year?|Howard Megdal|September 11, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
That’s why it would be important for the new agency to have a technically sophisticated staff and meaningful access to company data.
Why the most controversial US internet law is worth saving|Amy Nordrum|September 9, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Today’s riots, still relatively rare, roil after years of legal logjams and gridlock on meaningful policing reform.
Kenosha’s looting is a symptom of a decrepit democracy|Aaron Ross Coleman|September 4, 2020|Vox
During the pandemic, with hooking up really off the table, we’ve really seen that accelerate a strong demand for services and apps that provide more meaningful connections.
Match’s CEO explains how dating has changed during the COVID pandemic|Danielle Abril|September 3, 2020|Fortune
Carla points out how meaningful it can be to have people in your life who simply understand what you're going through.
Everyone at This Dinner Party Has Lost Someone|Samantha Levine|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
If they were meaningful, we might have realized it before—surely one of these kids wore a cross, or a yarmulke, or a hijab?
Harry Potter and the Torah of Terror|Candida Moss, Joel Baden|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He posted on Facebook about wanting to do something “right” and meaningful.
Exclusive: Inside a Cop-Killer’s Final Hours|Michael Daly|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The second pitfall is that Tendulkar has given the reader little of what should be a gripping, meaningful story of his life.
The Story of the World’s Greatest Cricket Player|William O’Connor|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“What Miss Couple has taught me is how deep and meaningful a BDSM relationship can be,” he said.
Dungeons and Genital Clamps: Inside a Legendary BDSM Chateau|Ian Frisch|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the first place, they are rarely Marxists in any meaningful sense of the term.
Warren Commission (5 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
Then, stealing an unhappy glance at Laurie, he found that youth grinning broadly, and was the recipient of a most meaningful wink.
The Turner Twins|Ralph Henry Barbour
The quietness, profound and meaningful, yet further calms our spirit.
The Heart of Nature|Francis Younghusband
The potential for abusive use of images is as great as that for their meaningful application.
The Civilization of Illiteracy|Mihai Nadin
Standard tests meant nothing, unless mutually exclusive results could be accepted as meaningful in themselves.