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significant
Synonyms and Antonyms of significant
- The town's generous library budget is significant of the value its residents place on learning.
- made a significant change in the procedure for applying for citizenship
decisive, fatal, fateful, strategic
earnest, grave, heavy, serious, sincere
distinctive, exceptional, impressive, outstanding, prominent, remarkable
distinguished, eminent, great, illustrious, noble, notable, noteworthy, outstanding, preeminent, prestigious
all-important, central, critical, crucial, essential, key, pivotal, seminal, vital
- a producer who is playing a significant role in the creation of the new film
- paid a significant amount of money for the movie rights to the book
biggish, considerable, good, goodly, handsome, healthy, largish, major, respectable, sizable (or sizeable), substantial, substantive, tidy
big, bulky, hefty, hulking, outsize (also outsized), oversize (or oversized), voluminous
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
measly, minute, paltry, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, puny, trifling, trivial, unimportant
marginal, meager (or meagre), slight
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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