meaningful

[mee-ning-fuhl] / ˈmi nɪŋ fəl /

ADJECTIVE

significant

Synonyms

STRONGEST

consequential essential important purposeful relevant serious substantial useful valid worthwhile

WEAK

allusive big clear concise considerable deep eloquent exact explicit expressive heavy indicative intelligible material momentous pointed pregnant sententious succinct suggestive weighty

Antonyms

STRONGEST

insignificant little minor nonessential small trivial unimportant unsubstantial worthless

WEAK

meaningless useless

Usage

What are other ways to say meaningful? When describing forms of expression, the adjectives meaningful and significant imply an underlying and unexpressed thought whose existence is plainly shown although its precise nature is left to conjecture. Meaningful implies a secret and intimate understanding between the persons involved: Meaningful looks passed between them. Significant suggests conveying important or hidden meaning: On hearing this statement, he gave the officers a significant glance. Expressive suggests conveying, or being capable of conveying, a thought, intention, emotion, etc., in an effective or vivid manner: an expressive gesture. Suggestive implies an indirect or covert conveying of a meaning, sometimes mentally stimulating, sometimes verging on impropriety or indecency: a suggestive story or remark.

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The numbers give you meaningful information about the system, but not about how people experience their actual lives.

From Los Angeles Times

The results, published recently in Advanced Materials, represent a meaningful advance against one of the most stubborn pollution threats worldwide.

From Science Daily

But the growing volume of AI written text is also making it harder for key decision makers to tell meaningful work apart from low value content.

From Science Daily

A high release point, yet to actually release a meaningful Ashes delivery.

From BBC

“It’s clear that everybody who states that they care about veterans are going to want to know what will make a meaningful impact in their lives.”

From Los Angeles Times

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