Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
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Adjective
S: (adj) significant, important (important in effect or meaning) "a significant change in tax laws"; "a significant change in the Constitution"; "a significant contribution"; "significant details"; "statistically significant"
S: (adj) momentous (of very great significance) "deciding to drop the atom bomb was a very big decision"; "a momentous event"
S: (adj) epochal, epoch-making (highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era) "epochal decisions made by Roosevelt and Churchill"; "an epoch-making discovery"
S: (adj) earthshaking, world-shaking, world-shattering (sufficiently significant to affect the whole world) "earthshaking proposals"; "the contest was no world-shaking affair"; "the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering"
S: (adj) evidential, evidentiary (serving as or based on evidence) "evidential signs of a forced entry"; "its evidentiary value"
S: (adj) fundamental, profound (far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something) "the fundamental revolution in human values that has occurred"; "the book underwent fundamental changes"; "committed the fundamental error of confusing spending with extravagance"; "profound social changes"
S: (adj) large (fairly large or important in effect; influential) "played a large role in the negotiations"
S: (adj) noteworthy, remarkable, notable (worthy of attention because interesting, significant, or unusual) "a noteworthy fact is that her students rarely complain"; "a noteworthy advance in cancer research"; "a remarkable achievement"; "a notable increase in the crime rate"
S: (adj) probative, probatory (tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation) "evidence should only be excluded if its probative value was outweighed by its prejudicial effect"
S: (adj) operative (effective; producing a desired effect) "the operative word"
S: (adj) portentous, prodigious (of momentous or ominous significance) "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision"
S: (adj) significant, substantial (of considerable importance, size, or worth) "won by a substantial margin"
S: (adj) significant (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"
S: (adj) meaning, pregnant, significant (rich in significance or implication) "a meaning look"; "a significant silence"