MEANINGFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does meaningful mean? 

• MEANINGFUL (adjective)
  The adjective MEANINGFUL has 1 sense:

1. having a meaning or purpose

  Familiarity information: MEANINGFUL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEANINGFUL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a meaning or purpose

Context example:

a meaningful pause

Similar:

meaty; substantive (being on topic and prompting thought)

meaning; pregnant; significant (rich in significance or implication)

purposeful (having meaning through having an aim)

Also:

purposeful (serving as or indicating the existence of a purpose or goal)

important; significant (important in effect or meaning)

Antonym:

meaningless (having no meaning or direction or purpose)

Derivation:

meaningfulness (the quality of having great value or significance)

 Context examples 

See if you can give up something meaningful to your client, but not so much to you for a more winning situation.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

But smell didn't appear to make a meaningful difference in mortality rates for people who were in fair to poor health at the start of the study.

(Declining Sense of Smell Linked to Risk of Death, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A specific reason explaining why a meaningful value is not available.

(Missing Value Reason, NCI Thesaurus)

These results suggest that taking this relatively safe form of curcumin could provide meaningful cognitive benefits over the years.

(Daily Consumption of Turmeric Could Improve Memory, Mood, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Scientists used to think that meaningful evolutionary changes would take thousands of years to occur.

(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)

A set of hardware and software which processes data in a meaningful way.

(Computer System, NCI Thesaurus)

Importantly, the researchers observed entrainment at the low frequencies that carry meaningful information in sign language, not at the high frequencies usually seen in visual activity.

(The Rhythms of Sign Language, NSF)

A meaningful value answers the question posed by a Data Element Concept.

(Missing Value Reason, NCI Thesaurus)

It is never wise to do anything meaningful close to a Mercury retrograde period, so plan your most important actions in January.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

In contrast, a Missing Value Reason answers the implicit question "Why is there no 'meaningful' value?", when there is none.

(Missing Value Reason, NCI Thesaurus)