significantlyadverb
uk/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt.li/us/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kənt.li/significantly adverb (IMPORTANT)
B2 in a way that is easy to see or by a large amount:
My piano playing has improved significantly since I started with a new teacher.
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- Employment levels are unlikely to rise significantly before the end of next year.
- They expanded their retail operations significantly during the 1980s.
- Studies suggest that regular intake of the vitamin significantly improves brain function.
- Hotdesking allows a company to have significantly smaller premises.
- High winds significantly hampered the plane's acceleration.
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Linguistics: very & extreme
- abject
- awful
- badly
- beyond
- classic
- classical
- devastating
- drop dead! idiom
- eminently
- esp
- especially
- heartily
- impossibly
- perfect
- sheer
- specially
- supremely
- thoroughly
- whole
- wide
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significantly adverb (SPECIAL MEANING)
in a way that suggests a special meaning:
He said that he would be bringing a friend with him but, significantly, didn't say who it was.
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Meaning & significance
- add
- add up to sth
- badge
- connotation
- denotation
- drift
- drive
- hermeneutic
- hermeneutics
- how
- loaded
- mean
- meaning
- modality
- other
- pregnant
- put words in/into sb's mouth idiom
- signify
- speak to sb idiom
- word
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