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say it: suhg-NIF-i-kuhnt
significant is an adjective meaning "important in effect or meaning". It is pronounced /səɡˈnɪfɪkənt/ — suhg-NIF-i-kuhnt. It carries 4 recorded senses.
important in effect or meaning
“a significant change in tax laws”
“a significant change in the Constitution”
“a significant contribution”
“significant details”
“statistically significant”
of considerable importance, size, or worth
“won by a substantial margin”
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”
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Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for significant come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.