Antonyms for significant
sɪgˈnɪf ɪ kəntsig·nif·i·cant

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1. significant

   Antonyms:
   inexpressive, meaningless, expressionless, unindicative, mute

   Synonyms:
   expressive, momentous, suggestive, indicative, forcible, weighty, symbolical, telling, speaking

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1. significant, importantadjective

   important in effect or meaning

   "a significant change in tax laws"; "a significant change in the Constitution"; "a significant contribution"; "significant details"; "statistically significant"

   Antonyms:
   inconsiderable, trivial, slight, fragile, hole-and-corner, flimsy, meaningless, thin, insignificant, inappreciable, superficial, nonsignificant, light, hole-in-corner, nonmeaningful, unimportant, tenuous

   Synonyms:
   substantial, meaning(a), of import, pregnant, important, authoritative, crucial

2. significant, substantialadjective

   fairly large

   "won by a substantial margin"

   Antonyms:
   inappreciable, hole-in-corner, light, slight, fragile, thin, nonsignificant, meaningless, flimsy, inconsiderable, nonmeaningful, tenuous, unimportant, trivial, hole-and-corner, insignificant, superficial

   Synonyms:
   substantial, square, hearty, real, pregnant, important, material, substantive, solid, meaning(a), strong, satisfying

3. significantadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   light, inconsiderable, hole-in-corner, unimportant, insignificant, superficial, tenuous, nonmeaningful, trivial, flimsy, inappreciable, slight, thin, fragile, meaningless, nonsignificant, hole-and-corner

   Synonyms:
   meaning(a), important, substantial, pregnant

4. meaning(a), pregnant, significantadjective

   rich in significance or implication

   "a meaning look"

   Antonyms:
   hole-in-corner, nonsignificant, nonmeaningful, hole-and-corner, fragile, unimportant, trivial, inconsiderable, meaningless, slight, inappreciable, superficial, flimsy, thin, insignificant, light, tenuous

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1. significantadjective

   Antonyms:
   insignificant, unimportant, meaningless

   Synonyms:
   momentous, important, indicative, significative

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How to use significant in a sentence?

1. Chief Executive John Christmann:

   Six quarters into the downturn, we are still achieving significant quarter on quarter cost improvements.

2. Neal Epstein:

   The change could be significant.

3. Pat Ryder:

   There's certainly significant defensive obstacles in their way, this is an Iraqi-led operation. They will move at their pace, and so we are supportive of their plan but it's certainly something that we're discussing with them.

4. Michael Yeo:

   By the time they come in with a local version, if they do, the local players will have a significant advantage.

5. Philip Goulder:

   HIV adaptation to the most effective immune responses we can make against it comes at a significant cost to its ability to replicate, anything we can do to increase the pressure on HIV in this way may allow scientists to reduce the destructive power of HIV over time.

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