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单词 meaningful
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Definition of meaningful in English:

meaningful

adjective ˈmiːnɪŋf(ə)lˈmiːnɪŋfʊlˈminɪŋfəl
  • 1Having meaning.

    meaningful elements in a language
    words likely to be meaningful to pupils
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Some recognize that men and women are different, but worry that tailoring their product or service to be meaningful to women could undermine their appeal to men.
    • But requirements should be changed over time to make them more meaningful to executives if initial levels don't sustain their attention.
    • Shortly thereafter, they began to negotiate solutions that were meaningful to all.
    • Also the essence of what they're writing about, is deep and touching and meaningful to me.
    • To map that joining, we must explore emerging technologies, not merely because they are new, but because they have some bearing on a facet of sound and music that is meaningful to us.
    • But in trying so hard to make its guidelines understandable to everyone, the FDA has made them meaningful to no one, and insulting to our intelligence to boot.
    • Instead we saw one another as co-creators of an artistic process that was deeply meaningful to us.
    • Emily searched her mind for something eloquent and meaningful to say in response, but the plain and simple truth rolled off the tip of her tongue instead.
    • To attend only or mostly to activities and issues that are meaningful to me would make a huge difference in attitude about teaching.
    • The strategy will apply different messaging and tactics that are meaningful to consumers as they enter different life stages.
    • The marketing strategy is to create a point of difference that is meaningful to the patient.
    • The description should be meaningful to the visitor.
    • The primary benefit of user-centered design is that, when performed well, it ensures that the product is useful, usable, and meaningful to the end-user.
    • The purpose of collecting qualitative data is to find some sort of pattern inherent in the numbers that will point out some trend that is meaningful to the collector.
    • Attract more students with a basic foundation program that is fun and meaningful to them, then move those dancers who show potential into your more professional programs.
    • Rename the icon to make it more meaningful to you.
    • Throughout the experiential learning cycle, learners are actively involved in every aspect of constructing their knowledge in a manner that is meaningful to them.
    • Emotional Branding navigates these choppy waters by enabling brands to carry on a personal dialogue with consumers on the issues which are most meaningful to them.
    • Framers must do the math to decide upon incentives that strike a good balance between being meaningful to customers and keeping the shop's profit margin intact.
    • However, these connections are not clear enough for the experience to be meaningful to anyone who was not there.
    Synonyms
    significant, relevant, important, consequential, material, telling, pithy, weighty, valid, worthwhile, purposeful
    1. 1.1 Serious, important, or worthwhile.
      the new structure would bring meaningful savings
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Do you ever worry about the place of art, of serious, meaningful human discourse?
      • Possibly this room had a very meaningful purpose, and the tower was built sturdier than the others to ensure its protection.
      • For this reason, the Law of Emphyteusis was certainly Argentina's most important step toward meaningful land reform.
      • Heck, he couldn't even remember the last time he had been in a serious, meaningful relationship!
      • Depending on work, learning, and leisure activities, different people will consider different activities as personally meaningful and important.
      • Any words that strike you as important or meaningful, words that you feel are stressed, biased, repeated or isolated.
      • The commentary focuses on a single endpoint of one study and completely ignores other important and meaningful results from that study.
      • Additional internal processes are finding the activities of the course to be personally interesting, fun, meaningful, and relevant.
      • Children who see literacy as a family value and learn early on that reading and writing are pleasurable, important and meaningful are more successful in school.
      • ‘We choose the subject matter because it is meaningful and important to society,’ he said.
      • Strong relationships established between a student and his/her advisor can be a union, which makes the college experience meaningful and worthwhile.
      • The show was able to conjure up serious and meaningful drama, and could absolutely rock the house when it chose to.
      • Yet, such praise has come to be more meaningful and important than any accolades he might have received for news articles he crafted in another life.
      • In her first book, she pursues answers to a sort of question that, once articulated, seems so important and meaningful that one wonders how it escaped being asked for so long.
      • The comparison must be meaningful and relevant.
      • Overall, these are truly terrible transfers matched with no meaningful windfall material and sound like a 1950s transistor radio.
      • I'm not happy to be some yes man and skate through my career without making something meaningful of it for myself, and more importantly others.
      • ‘You need to find a meaningful purpose other than just pushing paper,’ she says.
      • I mean that it was a serious attempt to make meaningful acknowledgment of his concern for art history without renouncing his painstakingly constructed, jaded persona.
      • The remembered past is unobjective, but it is meaningful and valid to more people because they participate in its transmission.
      Synonyms
      sincere, deep, serious, in earnest, significant, important
    2. 1.2 Communicating something that is not directly expressed.
      meaningful glances and repressed passion
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But she didn't miss the meaningful glances that passed between Serah and Julia.
      • Kim depends so much on wordless communication and meaningful interplay of glances.
      • The two officials exchanged meaningful glances.
      • If they don't, start throwing meaningful glances toward the door.
      • Yet there was no mistaking David's deep, meaningful eyes.
      • I faintly nod and give them a meaningful glance.
      • When the class finished Mrs Smith gave me a meaningful glance, I guess that's a hint to come back after school was over.
      • She paused and gave him a deep and meaningful smile.
      • As Silveria spoke he sent a meaningful glance in Ramano's direction.
      • ‘Maybe you should double loop it,’ he suggested, casting a meaningful look in Josh's direction.
      • She shook her head, giving the dragon a meaningful glance.
      • Alice and Lisa exchanged meaningful glances, and they both smiled.
      • With a meaningful glance at his comrade, he pointed to the south.
      • ‘My mother was in a car crash,’ she said slowly, then threw a meaningful glance at Brandon, who had stopped eating and was staring at her.
      • There can be more humour in a meaningful glance between Jim Royle and his son, or in a pregnant pause between the Royles and the mad woman next door, than in an entire episode of My Family or Friends.
      • Wait for the tension to become unbearable, noticing the meaningful glances in the hallways, and then wait for him to kiss you.
      • The hump-backed woman cast a meaningful glance at Cixi, whose mouth became firm with indignation.
      • Ross, sensing that he's been dismissed, nods and gives his father a meaningful glance, unseen by Tristan.
      • After a meaningful glance at Celeste, the Seer withdrew into silence.
      • I gave Becca a meaningful glance and she tried to smile.
      Synonyms
      expressive, eloquent, pointed, significant, meaning
      deep, pregnant, speaking, telltale, revealing, suggestive
    3. 1.3Logic Having a recognizable function in a logical language or other sign system.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • As it turns out, many virtual entities lend themselves well to the meaningful assignment of status functions.
      • A meaningful test of Radius system performance required confirmation of the interferometer concept.

Derivatives

  • meaningfulness

  • noun ˈmiːnɪŋfəlnəsˈmiːnɪŋfʊlnəsˈminɪŋfəlnəs
    • The story is messy and weighed down by its attempts at meaningfulness.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I don't think that I am the only one who couldn't help but wonder about the meaningfulness of his job and his mission in life.
      • It is possible that one may not be able to account for the meaningfulness or logical behavior of certain sentences simply on the basis of the denotations (names and descriptions) in the sentence.
      • He focuses on the meaningfulness and pleasure of the act of making by magnifying and expanding it.
      • If writers were paid per unit of meaningfulness rather than per word or per page, he would have been one of the richest.
 
 

Definition of meaningful in US English:

meaningful

adjectiveˈmēniNGfəlˈminɪŋfəl
  • 1Having meaning.

    meaningful elements in a language
    questions that are meaningful to students
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Shortly thereafter, they began to negotiate solutions that were meaningful to all.
    • The description should be meaningful to the visitor.
    • To attend only or mostly to activities and issues that are meaningful to me would make a huge difference in attitude about teaching.
    • The purpose of collecting qualitative data is to find some sort of pattern inherent in the numbers that will point out some trend that is meaningful to the collector.
    • Also the essence of what they're writing about, is deep and touching and meaningful to me.
    • Rename the icon to make it more meaningful to you.
    • Instead we saw one another as co-creators of an artistic process that was deeply meaningful to us.
    • Some recognize that men and women are different, but worry that tailoring their product or service to be meaningful to women could undermine their appeal to men.
    • The marketing strategy is to create a point of difference that is meaningful to the patient.
    • However, these connections are not clear enough for the experience to be meaningful to anyone who was not there.
    • The primary benefit of user-centered design is that, when performed well, it ensures that the product is useful, usable, and meaningful to the end-user.
    • But requirements should be changed over time to make them more meaningful to executives if initial levels don't sustain their attention.
    • Emily searched her mind for something eloquent and meaningful to say in response, but the plain and simple truth rolled off the tip of her tongue instead.
    • Framers must do the math to decide upon incentives that strike a good balance between being meaningful to customers and keeping the shop's profit margin intact.
    • But in trying so hard to make its guidelines understandable to everyone, the FDA has made them meaningful to no one, and insulting to our intelligence to boot.
    • The strategy will apply different messaging and tactics that are meaningful to consumers as they enter different life stages.
    • Throughout the experiential learning cycle, learners are actively involved in every aspect of constructing their knowledge in a manner that is meaningful to them.
    • To map that joining, we must explore emerging technologies, not merely because they are new, but because they have some bearing on a facet of sound and music that is meaningful to us.
    • Emotional Branding navigates these choppy waters by enabling brands to carry on a personal dialogue with consumers on the issues which are most meaningful to them.
    • Attract more students with a basic foundation program that is fun and meaningful to them, then move those dancers who show potential into your more professional programs.
    Synonyms
    significant, relevant, important, consequential, material, telling, pithy, weighty, valid, worthwhile, purposeful
    1. 1.1 Having a serious, important, or useful quality or purpose.
      making our lives rich and meaningful
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Possibly this room had a very meaningful purpose, and the tower was built sturdier than the others to ensure its protection.
      • For this reason, the Law of Emphyteusis was certainly Argentina's most important step toward meaningful land reform.
      • Yet, such praise has come to be more meaningful and important than any accolades he might have received for news articles he crafted in another life.
      • The show was able to conjure up serious and meaningful drama, and could absolutely rock the house when it chose to.
      • ‘You need to find a meaningful purpose other than just pushing paper,’ she says.
      • I'm not happy to be some yes man and skate through my career without making something meaningful of it for myself, and more importantly others.
      • Heck, he couldn't even remember the last time he had been in a serious, meaningful relationship!
      • ‘We choose the subject matter because it is meaningful and important to society,’ he said.
      • Additional internal processes are finding the activities of the course to be personally interesting, fun, meaningful, and relevant.
      • Overall, these are truly terrible transfers matched with no meaningful windfall material and sound like a 1950s transistor radio.
      • Strong relationships established between a student and his/her advisor can be a union, which makes the college experience meaningful and worthwhile.
      • Any words that strike you as important or meaningful, words that you feel are stressed, biased, repeated or isolated.
      • The comparison must be meaningful and relevant.
      • The remembered past is unobjective, but it is meaningful and valid to more people because they participate in its transmission.
      • I mean that it was a serious attempt to make meaningful acknowledgment of his concern for art history without renouncing his painstakingly constructed, jaded persona.
      • In her first book, she pursues answers to a sort of question that, once articulated, seems so important and meaningful that one wonders how it escaped being asked for so long.
      • Depending on work, learning, and leisure activities, different people will consider different activities as personally meaningful and important.
      • Children who see literacy as a family value and learn early on that reading and writing are pleasurable, important and meaningful are more successful in school.
      • The commentary focuses on a single endpoint of one study and completely ignores other important and meaningful results from that study.
      • Do you ever worry about the place of art, of serious, meaningful human discourse?
      Synonyms
      sincere, deep, serious, in earnest, significant, important
    2. 1.2 Communicating something that is not directly expressed.
      meaningful glances and repressed passion
      Example sentencesExamples
      • ‘My mother was in a car crash,’ she said slowly, then threw a meaningful glance at Brandon, who had stopped eating and was staring at her.
      • Ross, sensing that he's been dismissed, nods and gives his father a meaningful glance, unseen by Tristan.
      • The hump-backed woman cast a meaningful glance at Cixi, whose mouth became firm with indignation.
      • I faintly nod and give them a meaningful glance.
      • The two officials exchanged meaningful glances.
      • With a meaningful glance at his comrade, he pointed to the south.
      • If they don't, start throwing meaningful glances toward the door.
      • Kim depends so much on wordless communication and meaningful interplay of glances.
      • I gave Becca a meaningful glance and she tried to smile.
      • There can be more humour in a meaningful glance between Jim Royle and his son, or in a pregnant pause between the Royles and the mad woman next door, than in an entire episode of My Family or Friends.
      • But she didn't miss the meaningful glances that passed between Serah and Julia.
      • Wait for the tension to become unbearable, noticing the meaningful glances in the hallways, and then wait for him to kiss you.
      • Yet there was no mistaking David's deep, meaningful eyes.
      • As Silveria spoke he sent a meaningful glance in Ramano's direction.
      • When the class finished Mrs Smith gave me a meaningful glance, I guess that's a hint to come back after school was over.
      • ‘Maybe you should double loop it,’ he suggested, casting a meaningful look in Josh's direction.
      • She shook her head, giving the dragon a meaningful glance.
      • She paused and gave him a deep and meaningful smile.
      • After a meaningful glance at Celeste, the Seer withdrew into silence.
      • Alice and Lisa exchanged meaningful glances, and they both smiled.
      Synonyms
      expressive, eloquent, pointed, significant, meaning
    3. 1.3Logic Having a recognizable function in a logical language or other sign system.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • As it turns out, many virtual entities lend themselves well to the meaningful assignment of status functions.
      • A meaningful test of Radius system performance required confirmation of the interferometer concept.
 
 
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