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Synonyms & Antonyms of significant
- after remarking that tardiness was on the rise, our boss cast a significant glance my way
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- unexpressive
- the town's generous library budget is significant of the value its residents place on learning
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- made a significant change in the procedure for applying for citizenship
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- a producer who is playing a significant role in the creation of the new film
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- authoritarian,
- autocratic
- (also autocratical),
- despotic,
- dictatorial,
- magisterial,
- tyrannical
- (also tyrannic)
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- paid a significant amount of money for the movie rights to the book
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- biggish,
- considerable,
- good,
- goodly,
- handsome,
- healthy,
- largish,
- major,
- respectable,
- sizable
- (or sizeable),
- substantial,
- substantive,
- tidy
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- astronomical
- (also astronomic),
- bumper,
- colossal,
- elephantine,
- enormous,
- gigantic,
- great,
- herculean,
- huge,
- immense,
- jumbo,
- king-size
- (or king-sized),
- mammoth,
- massive,
- monstrous,
- monumental,
- prodigious,
- titanic,
- tremendous,
- whopping
Near Antonyms for significant
- little,
- small,
- tiny,
- undersized
- (also undersize)
- bitty,
- diminutive,
- miniature,
- pint-size
- (or pint-sized),
- pocket,
- pocket-size
- (also pocket-sized),
- pygmy,
- smallish
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“Significant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/significant. Accessed 23 May. 2022.
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The first known use of significant was in 1579
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