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Antonyms for more significant

Grammar : Adj
Spell : sig-nif-i-kuhnt
Phonetic Transcription : sɪgˈnɪf ɪ kənt

Definition of more significant

Origin :
  • 1570s, "having a meaning," from Latin significantem (nominative significans, present participle of significare "make known, indicate" (see signify). Earlier in the same sense was significative (c.1400). Often "having a special or secret meaning," hence "important" (1761). Related: Significantly. Significant figure is from 1680s. Significant other (n.) attested by 1961, in psychology, "the most influential other person in the patient's world."
  • adj telling, meaningful
  • adj important, critical
Example sentences :
  • Their presence rendered the occasion all the more significant.
  • Extract from : « Camps, Quarters and Casual Places » by Archibald Forbes
  • But more significant than the answers were the refusals to answer.
  • Extract from : « Monday or Tuesday » by Virginia Woolf
  • Could any teetotaller have invented a more significant name?
  • Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 » by Various
  • More significant are the percentages in columns five, six, and seven.
  • Extract from : « The Facts About Shakespeare » by William Allan Nielson
  • What is less obvious, but more significant, is its purblindness.
  • Extract from : « What Is and What Might Be » by Edmond Holmes
  • As for the reaction time, I noted that it was growing longer and more significant.
  • Extract from : « The Silent Bullet » by Arthur B. Reeve
  • Often one feels in a gallery that the people are more significant than the pictures.
  • Extract from : « The Gate of Appreciation » by Carleton Noyes
  • The more she dwelt upon this neglect the more significant it became.
  • Extract from : « Cavanagh: Forest Ranger » by Hamlin Garland
  • No part of a book is more significant to the child than the illustrations.
  • Extract from : « The Later Cave-Men » by Katharine Elizabeth Dopp
  • His mother, to whom he became more and more significant, thought how to help.
  • Extract from : « Sons and Lovers » by David Herbert Lawrence

Synonyms for more significant

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