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May 27, 2012
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Synonyms for significant

Adjective

1. significant (vs. insignificant), important, big, momentous, earthshaking, world-shaking, world-shattering, epochal, epoch-making, evidential, evidentiary, fundamental, profound, monumental, noteworthy, remarkable, probative, operative, key, portentous, prodigious, large, important#1, of import, meaningful
usage: important in effect or meaning; "a significant change in tax laws"; "a significant change in the Constitution"; "a significant contribution"; "significant details"; "statistically significant"
2. significant, substantial, considerable (vs. inconsiderable)
usage: fairly large; "won by a substantial margin"
3. significant (vs. nonsignificant)
usage: 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"
4. meaning(prenominal), pregnant, significant, meaningful (vs. meaningless)
usage: rich in significance or implication; "a meaning look"; "pregnant with meaning"
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