significantとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kənt/, /sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.ɡənt/

形容詞

significant (comparative more significant, superlative most significant)

1. Signifying something; carrying meaning.

   Synonym: meaningful

   a significant word or sound

   a significant look

   • 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], OCLC 37026674, (please specify |book=1 to 5):

     It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, but not efficient.

   • 1856, Charles Dickens; Wilkie Collins, chapter III, in The Wreck of the Golden Mary, part two, page 99:

     As evening came on, it grew prematurely dark and cloudy; while the waves acquired that dull indigo tint so significant of ugly weather.

2. Having a covert or hidden meaning.
3. Having a noticeable or major effect.

   Synonym: notable

   That was a significant step in the right direction.

   The First World War was a significant event.

   • 2015, Shane R. Reeves; David Wallace, “The Combatant Status of the “Little Green Men” and Other Participants in the Ukraine Conflict”, in International Law Studies, US Naval War College‎^[1], volume 91, number 361, Stockton Center for the Study of International Law, page 393:

     The “little green men”—faces covered, wearing unmarked olive uniforms, speaking Russian and using Russian weapons—have played a significant role in both the occupation of Crimea and the civil war in eastern Ukraine.¹⁹⁶

4. Reasonably large in number or amount.
5. (statistics) Having a low probability of occurring by chance (for example, having high correlation かつ thus likely to be related).

同意語

• important

反意語

• insignificant
• ignorable
• negligible
• slight

関連する語

• significance
• significand
• significant other
• signify

名詞

significant (複数形 significants)

1. That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv]:

     In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts.

   • a. 1850, William Wordsworth, The Egyptian Maid

     And in my glass significants there are

参照

• significant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Latin

動詞

significant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of significō