Definition of significative in English:
significative
adjective sɪɡˈnɪfɪkətɪvsɪɡˈnɪfɪkeɪdɪv
rare Being a symbol or sign of something; having a meaning.
Example sentencesExamples
- The artist encircles this cross with a line to mark it off as significative.
- Since the primary purpose of the script was not to record human speech but to serve as a device for recording economic data, the significative potential of the oldest cuneiform system was rather limited.
- Chlebnikov was an assiduous worker of verbal materials, a relentless excavator in the vocabulary: the sound of a root induced him to imagine in it a significative potential that the common language had not developed.
- Its setting, the courtroom, is a significative and instantly recognizable space, and it relies on a set of props that have been hallowed by centuries of reverential use.
- Here we encounter the third and final function of symbolic meaning, the significative function, which is exhibited most clearly, according to Cassirer, in the ‘pure category of relation.’
Definition of significative in US English:
significative
adjectivesɪɡˈnɪfɪkeɪdɪvsiɡˈnifikādiv
rare Being a symbol or sign of something; having a meaning.
Example sentencesExamples
- The artist encircles this cross with a line to mark it off as significative.
- Chlebnikov was an assiduous worker of verbal materials, a relentless excavator in the vocabulary: the sound of a root induced him to imagine in it a significative potential that the common language had not developed.
- Its setting, the courtroom, is a significative and instantly recognizable space, and it relies on a set of props that have been hallowed by centuries of reverential use.
- Here we encounter the third and final function of symbolic meaning, the significative function, which is exhibited most clearly, according to Cassirer, in the ‘pure category of relation.’
- Since the primary purpose of the script was not to record human speech but to serve as a device for recording economic data, the significative potential of the oldest cuneiform system was rather limited.