In the main, I am in favor of political reform if meaningful changes are made.
Source: tatoeba (28196)
Meaningful
//ˈmi.nɪŋ.fl̩//
Synonyms for "meaningful" (130 found)
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Closest matches (26)
Strong matches (39)
Related words (65)
Adjective(10 words)
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presagefulpresagingprognosticprognosticativepurposefulreadablereferentialrelevantreliablerepresentativerichsemanticsemioticsententiousserioussignalizingsignificativesignifyingsobersubstantialsuggestivesymbolicsymbolicalsymbolisticsymbologicalsymptomaticsymptomatologictellingtransferredtruetypicalvalidvividwarningweighty
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Antonyms
2 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesderived
8 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
10 entriesTranslations
55 translations across 35 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- смислен adj (having meaning, significant)
- съдържателен adj (having meaning, significant)
Catalan
1 entries- significatiu adj (having meaning, significant)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 有意義 /有意义 adj (having meaning, significant)
Czech
1 entries- smysluplný adj (having meaning, significant)
Dutch
1 entries- zinvol adj (having meaning, significant)
Esperanto
2 entries- senchava adj (having meaning, significant)
- signifa adj (having meaning, significant)
Finnish
2 entries- merkittävä adj (having meaning, significant)
- merkityksellinen adj (having meaning, significant)
French
2 entries- qui a du sens adj (having meaning, significant)
- significatif adj (having meaning, significant)
Galician
1 entries- significativo adj (having meaning, significant)
German
3 entries- bedeutend adj (having meaning, significant)
- bedeutungsvoll adj (having meaning, significant)
- sinnhaft adj (having meaning, significant)
Hindi
2 entries- अर्थपूर्ण adj (having meaning, significant)
- सार्थक adj (having meaning, significant)
Hungarian
1 entries- kifejező adj (having meaning, significant)
Indonesian
1 entries- berarti adj (having meaning, significant)
Interlingua
1 entries- significante adj (having meaning, significant)
Italian
4 entries- costruttivo adj (having meaning, significant)
- efficace adj (having meaning, significant)
- sensato adj (having meaning, significant)
- significativo adj (having meaning, significant)
Japanese
1 entries- 有意義な adj (having meaning, significant)
Korean
1 entries- 유의미(有意味)하다 adj (having meaning, significant)
Latvian
2 entries- jēdzīgs adj (having meaning, significant)
- nozīmīgs adj (having meaning, significant)
Lithuanian
1 entries- prasmingas adj (having meaning, significant)
Macedonian
1 entries- зна́чаен adj (having meaning, significant)
Māori
1 entries- whaitikanga adj (having meaning, significant)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- meiningsfull adj (having meaning, significant)
- meiningsfylt adj (having meaning, significant)
- meningsfull adj (having meaning, significant)
- meningsfylt adj (having meaning, significant)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- meiningsfull adj (having meaning, significant)
- meiningsfylt adj (having meaning, significant)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- معنیدار adj (having meaning, significant)
Polish
2 entries- znaczny adj (having meaning, significant)
- znaczący adj (having meaning, significant)
Portuguese
1 entries- significativo adj (having meaning, significant)
Romanian
1 entries- semnificativ adj (having meaning, significant)
Russian
1 entries- зна́чимый adj (having meaning, significant)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- smislen adj (having meaning, significant)
Spanish
1 entries- significativo adj (having meaning, significant)
Swedish
2 entries- betydelsefull adj (having meaning, significant)
- meningsfull adj (having meaning, significant)
Telugu
1 entries- అర్థవంతమైన adj (having meaning, significant)
Turkish
3 entries- anlamlı adj (having meaning, significant)
- manalı adj (having meaning, significant)
- manidar adj (having meaning, significant)
Ukrainian
2 entries- значний adj (having meaning, significant)
- значущий adj (having meaning, significant)
Vietnamese
1 entries- có ý nghĩa adj (having meaning, significant)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
She gave me a meaningful look.
Source: tatoeba (309553)
Everyone listened and was very happy, thinking this wedding was both original and meaningful.
Source: tatoeba (397988)
He regards women as disposable pleasures rather than as meaningful pursuits.
Source: tatoeba (725436)
Showing 4 of 15 available sentences.
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