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significance, n. 1. consequence, moment, matter, interest, consideration, concern, Archaic, concernment, significancy; account, value, materiality; priority, precedence, press, urgency, emergentness; gravity, graveness, seriousness, solemnity; importance, weight, weightiness, heaviness, substance, size; eminence, prominence, distinction, high standing, standing, rank, high rank or position, elevation; influence, sway, power, powerfulness, force; note, notability, mark; merit, worth, high caliber.
2. import, purport, signification; portent, implication, intimation, underlying meaning; meaning, sense, content, gist, essence, main idea, sum and substance, core, pith; drift, vein, tenor, theme, idea, thought, spirit; moral, lesson, message, point, intent, intention, purpose, objective, aim, goal.
significant, adj. 1. consequential, of great consequence, momentous, eventful, fateful, historic, landmark; vital, crucial, essential, valuable, necessary; critical, decisive, material; priority, urgent, emergent, exigent, pressing; grave, serious, sober, solemn; important, of great import, portentous; weighty, carrying great weight, heavy, ponderous, substantial, sizable; big, big-time, great, large, on the map; major, main, principal, prime, primary, chief, leading, foremost; outstanding, emiment, prominent, high-ranking, high-level, top-level; notable, of note, noteworthy, remarkable, of merit, meritorious, worthy; influential, well-connected, powerful.
2. meaningful, fraught with meaning, pregnant, pithy, of substance, deep, profound; suggestive, meaning, significative; indicative, symptomatic, diagnostic, Med. diacritic; prognostic, prognosticative, prognosti-catory, prophetic, presageful; portentous, ominous, premonitory, warning, foreboding, boding; allusive, connotative, inferential, implicative, implicational; denotative, denominative, designative, representational, symbolic.
3. expressive, telling, informative, communicative, revealing, demonstrative, exhibitive, pointed, forceful, effective; signal, knowing, understood, conventional, agreed upon; inside, esoteric, private, personal; secret, furtive, surreptitious, stolen, covert, clandestine.
signification, n. 1. meaning, sense, content; import, purport, essence. See - significance (def. 2).
2. indication, showing, pointing out; denotation, acceptation, designation, denomination, naming; symbolization, signing, signaling, representation; implication, connotation, allusion, reference; intimation, suggestion.
significative, adj. 1. indicative, signaling, sema-phoric, communicative; symbolic, representational, denotative, designative, denominative, naming, specifying, specific.
2. suggestive, expressive, meaning; meaningful, pregnant, pithy. See - significant (def. 2).
signify, v. 1. signal, sign, flag, semaphore, Naut. wigwag; convey, impart, get or put across, make known; transmit, send, pass on or along, Inf. telegraph, Inf. broadcast; communicate, express, relate, speak, tell of or about, voice, utter, breathe; announce, proclaim, declare, pronounce, come out with, blurt out; disclose, reveal, divulge, bring out, lay open.
2. represent, symbolize; denote, mean; imply, suggest; indicate, point to; portend, omen. See - sign (defs.
9, 10).
3. be significant, import, be of importance, leave one's or its mark; weigh, carry weight, matter, count, be of consequence, make a difference; amount to something, warrant consideration or attention, deserve merit.
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