- important and deserving of attention; of consequence: Their advice played a significant role in saving my marriage.
- relatively large in amount or quantity: a significant decrease in revenue.
- having or expressing a meaning; indicative: a significant symbol of royalty.
- having a special, secret, or disguised meaning; suggestive: a significant wink.
- of or relating to observations that are unlikely to occur by chance and that therefore indicate a systematic cause: Memory training produced a statistically significant improvement in group performance.
- something significant; a sign.
- having or expressing a meaning; indicative
- having a covert or implied meaning; suggestive
- important, notable, or momentous
- of or relating to a difference between a result derived from a hypothesis and its observed value that is too large to be attributed to chance and that therefore tends to refute the hypothesis
