单词 | significant |
释义 | significant (once / 90 pages) adj Use the adjective significant to describe something that is important. Your "significant other" means the person who's most important in your life. A significant result in a scientific study is a result large enough to matter. A less common meaning of significant is to describe something that has a special or hidden meaning. A significant smile can convey feelings or information without words. This adjective is from Latin significans, from significare "to signify," from signum "a sign, mark" plus facere "to make." WORD FAMILYsignificant: insignificant, nonsignificant, significance, significantly+/co-sign: co-signed/countersign: countersignature, countersigned, countersigning, countersigns/insignificance: insignificances/insignificant: insignificance, insignificantly/sign: co-sign, countersign, signatory, signature, signed, signedly, signer, signify, signing, signs, undersign/signatory: signatories/signature: signatures/signed: unsigned/signer: signers/significance: significances/signification: significations/signifier: signifiers/signify: significant, signification, signified, signifier, signifies, signifying/signing: signings/undersign: undersigned, undersigning USAGE EXAMPLESThe industrial plant appears especially significant as it offers a breakthrough by capturing CO2 without subsidy. BBC(Jan 03, 2017) Coal-burning factories are a significant cause of China’s long-standing smog. Washington Times(Jan 03, 2017) But politics, not Senate rules, might be the more significant obstacle to a comprehensive Obamacare repeal. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) 1adj rich in significance or implication Syn meaning, pregnant meaningful having a meaning or purpose 2adj important in effect or meaning a significant change in tax laws a significant change in the Constitution a significant contribution significant details statistically significant Syn|Ant important important, of import of great significance or value meaningfulhaving a meaning or purpose momentousof very great significance epoch-making, epochalhighly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era earthshaking, world-shaking, world-shatteringsufficiently significant to affect the whole world evidential, evidentiaryserving as or based on evidence fundamental, profoundfar-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something largefairly large or important in effect; influential monumentalof outstanding significance noteworthy, remarkableworthy of notice probative, probatorytending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation operativeeffective; producing a desired effect portentous, prodigiousof momentous or ominous significance insignificant, unimportant devoid of importance, meaning, or force unimportantnot important meaningless, nonmeaningfulhaving no meaning or direction or purpose hole-and-corner, hole-in-cornerrelating to the peripheral and unimportant aspects of life flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous, thinlacking substance or significance inappreciabletoo small to make a significant difference lighthaving little importance superficial, trivialof little substance or significance 3adj fairly large Syn substantial considerable large or relatively large in number or amount or extent or degree 4adj too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicating a systematic relation the interaction effect is significant at the .01 level no significant difference was found Ant nonsignificant attributable to chance |
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