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English
Etymology
From meaning + -ful.
Pronunciation
Adjective
meaningful (comparative more meaningful, superlative most meaningful)
- Having meaning, significant.
I think we made a meaningful contribution to this project today.
1948, Ray Bradbury, Tomorrow's Child:"This baby is the one that counts. I dare say Polly here wouldn't want any other, would you, Polly?"
"This baby, this baby," said Polly.
Wolcott gave Peter Horn a meaningful look. Horn interpreted it correctly. This baby or no more Polly ever again. This baby or Polly would be in a quiet room somewhere staring into space for the rest of her life.
2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport:But the Danes remained resolute in defence - largely thanks to a spirited display by captain Daniel Agger - and they went ahead with their first meaningful attack.
2023 August 23, Mel Holley, “Network News: ... while Chiltern Railways targets low-emissions stock”, in RAil, number 990, page 7:In setting out a broad-brush approach, the Arriva-owned operator doesn't make any specific requirements, but it says the replacement trains "must achieve a meaningful reduction in the exhaust emissions and exterior noise levels compared to Chiltern's existing DMUs".
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Translations
having meaning, significant
- Bulgarian: смислен (bg) (smislen), съдържателен (bg) (sǎdǎržatelen)
- Catalan: significatiu (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 有意義 / 有意义 (yǒu yìyì)
- Czech: smysluplný (cs)
- Dutch: zinvol (nl)
- Esperanto: senchava, signifa
- Finnish: merkittävä (fi), merkityksellinen (fi)
- French: significatif (fr), qui a du sens
- Galician: significativo
- German: bedeutend (de), bedeutungsvoll (de), sinnhaft (de)
- Hindi: सार्थक (hi) (sārthak), अर्थपूर्ण (arthapūrṇ)
- Hungarian: kifejező (hu)
- Indonesian: berarti (id)
- Interlingua: significante
- Italian: significativo (it), sensato (it), efficace (it), costruttivo (it)
- Japanese: 有意義な (ja) (ゆういぎな, yūigi-na)
- Korean: 유의미(有意味)하다 (yuuimihada)
- Latvian: jēdzīgs, nozīmīgs
- Lithuanian: prasmingas
- Macedonian: зна́чаен (znáčaen)
- Maori: whaitikanga
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: meningsfull, meiningsfull, meningsfylt, meiningsfylt
- Nynorsk: meiningsfull, meiningsfylt
- Polish: znaczący (pl), znaczny (pl)
- Portuguese: significativo (pt)
- Romanian: semnificativ (ro)
- Russian: зна́чимый (ru) (znáčimyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: smislen (sh)
- Spanish: significativo (es)
- Swedish: meningsfull (sv), betydelsefull (sv)
- Telugu: అర్థవంతమైన (arthavantamaina)
- Turkish: anlamlı (tr), manalı (tr), manidar (tr)
- Ukrainian: значний (značnyj), значущий (značuščyj)
- Vietnamese: có ý nghĩa
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