Definition of Significant

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Significant

Fitted or designed to signify or make known somethingl having a meaning; standing as a sign or token; expressive or suggestive; as, a significant word or sound; a significant look.

Deserving to be considered; important; momentous; as, a significant event.

That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.

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Significant Quotations

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
Dalai Lama

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
Ansel Adams

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
Marcus Aurelius

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
T. S. Eliot

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
Soren Kierkegaard

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
Noam Chomsky

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make life full, significant, and interesting.
Aldous Huxley

Significant Translations

significant in Afrikaans is betekenisvol
significant in Dutch is veelbetekenend, betekenisvol
significant in German is wertig, bezeichnende
significant in Italian is importante
significant in Portuguese is significativo
significant in Spanish is significativo, significante, cuantioso

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