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significance - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | significance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | meaning |
| Synonyms: | bottom line*, connotation, drift, force, heart, implication, import, meat*, message, name of the game*, nitty-gritty*, nub, nuts and bolts*, point, punch line*, purport, score, sense, stuff, understanding, acceptation, intendment, kicker, nature of the beast, significancy, signification |
| Antonyms: | insignificance, unimportance, meaninglessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | significance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | importance |
| Synonyms: | authority, consequence, consideration, credit, excellence, gravity, import, influence, magnitude, matter, merit, moment, perfection, pith, prestige, virtue, weight, impressiveness, momentousness, relevance, signification, weightiness |
| Antonyms: | insignificance, unimportance, triviality |
| Main Entry: | connotation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | implication |
| Synonyms: | association, coloring, essence, hint, meaning, nuance, overtone, significance, suggestion, undertone |
| Notes: | a word's denotation is its reference to the things it designates, its direct, explicit meaning; a word's connotation is things or attributes that the word brings to mind, any idea or notion suggested or associated with the word |
| Antonyms: | denotation |
| Main Entry: | contents |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | elements of larger object |
| Synonyms: | capacity, cargo, connotation, details, essence, filling, freight, gist, guts, implication, innards, inside, lading, load, meaning, nub, packing, shipment, significance, size, space, stuffing, subject matter, substance, sum, text, volume, chapters, constituents, divisions, furnishing, ingredients, subjects, themes, topics |
| Main Entry: | core |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | center, gist |
| Synonyms: | amount, base, basis, body, bottom line, bulk, burden, consequence, corpus, crux, essence, focus, foundation, heart, import, importance, kernel, mass, meat*, meat and potatoes*, middle, midst, nub, nucleus, origin, pith, pivot, purport, quick, root, significance, staple, substance, thrust, upshot, main idea, midpoint, nitty gritty |
| Antonyms: | covering, exterior, outside, perimeter, surface, exteriority |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dignity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excellence, nobility |
| Synonyms: | address, cachet, character, consequence, culture, decency, decorum, distinction, elevation, eminence, ethics, etiquette, glory, grace, grandeur, gravity, greatness, hauteur, honor, importance, majesty, merit, morality, perfection, poise, prestige, propriety, quality, rank, regard, renown, respectability, self-respect, significance, solemnity, splendor, standing, state, station, stature, status, virtue, worth, courtliness, loftiness, nobleness, seemliness, stateliness, sublimity, worthiness |
| Antonyms: | lowliness |
| Main Entry: | emphasis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | importance, prominence |
| Synonyms: | accent, attention, force, headline, highlight, insistence, intensity, moment, power, priority, significance, strength, stress, weight, accentuation, decidedness, impressiveness, positiveness, preeminence, underlining, underscoring |
| Antonyms: | insignificance, unimportance |
| Main Entry: | explanation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clarification; reason |
| Synonyms: | account, annotation, answer, breakdown, brief, cause, comment, commentary, confession, definition, demonstration, description, details, display, elucidation, evidence, example, excuse, exposition, expression, gloss, history, illustration, information, interpretation, justification, meaning, mitigation, motive, narration, note, recital, rendition, report, resolution, sense, showing, significance, specification, statement, story, summary, tale, talking, telling, vindication, writing, explication |
| Antonyms: | complication |
| Main Entry: | gist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | meaning, essence |
| Synonyms: | basis, bearing, bottom line*, burden, core, drift, force, heart, idea, import, kernel*, keynote, marrow, matter, meat*, name of the game*, nuts and bolts*, pith*, point, punch line, quintessence, score, sense, short, significance, soul, spirit, stuff*, subject, substance, summary, tenor, theme, thrust, topic, upshot*, nature of the beast, nitty gritty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | idea |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something understood, planned, or |
| Synonyms: | aim, approximation, belief, brainstorm*, clue, concept, conception, conclusion, conviction, design, doctrine, end, essence, estimate, fancy, feeling, flash*, form, guess, hint, hypothesis, import, impression, inkling, intention, interpretation, intimation, judgment, meaning, notion, object, objective, opinion, pattern, perception, plan, purpose, reason, scheme, sense, significance, solution, suggestion, suspicion, teaching, theory, thought, understanding, view, viewpoint, believed abstraction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | implication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | association, suggestion |
| Synonyms: | assumption, conclusion, connection, connotation, entanglement, guess, hint, hypothesis, indication, inference, innuendo, intimation, involvement, link, meaning, overtone, presumption, ramification, reference, significance, undertone, union, incrimination, signification |
| Main Entry: | influence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power, authority |
| Synonyms: | access, agency, ascendancy, character, clout, command, consequence, control, credit, direction, domination, dominion, drag, effect, esteem, fame, fix, force, grease*, guidance, hold, impact, importance, imprint, juice*, leadership, leverage, magnetism, mark, moment, money, monopoly, network, notoriety, predominance, prerogative, pressure, prestige, prominence, pull, repercussion, reputation, rule, significance, spell, supremacy, sway, weight*, connections, in, ropes |
| Antonyms: | impotence, incapacity, inferiority, weakness, powerlessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intent/intention |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aim, purpose |
| Synonyms: | animus, bottom line*, design, desire, drift, end, goal, heart, hope, idea, import, meaning, meat*, name of the game*, nature, notion, nub, nuts and bolts*, object, objective, plan, point, project, purport, scheme, score, sense, significance, target, understanding, volition, will, wish, acceptation, conation, intendment, significancy, signification |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | moral |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lesson, proverb |
| Synonyms: | adage, aphorism, axiom, dictum, epigram, gnome, maxim, meaning, message, motto, point, precept, rule, saying, sermon, significance, truism, apophthegm, moralism, saw |
| Main Entry: | purport |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | meaning, implication |
| Synonyms: | aim, bearing, burden, connotation, core, design, drift, gist, heart, idea, import, intent, intention, matter, meat, message, nub, object, objective, pith, plan, point, purpose, score, sense, significance, spirit, stuff, substance, tendency, tenor, thrust, understanding, upshot, acceptation, intendment, significancy, signification |
| Main Entry: | worth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | value, estimation associated with something |
| Synonyms: | account, aid, assistance, avail, benefit, caliber, class, consequence, cost, credit, dignity, equivalence, excellence, goodness, help, importance, mark, merit, moment, note, perfection, price, quality, rate, significance, stature, use, usefulness, utility, valuation, virtue, weight, desirability, meaningfulness, worthiness |
| Antonyms: | worthlessness |
| Main Entry: | accent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | importance, emphasis |
| Synonyms: | significance, stress, weight |
| Antonyms: | unimportance |
| Main Entry: | eminence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | importance, fame |
| Synonyms: | authority, celebrity, credit, dignity, distinction, esteem, glory, greatness, honor, influence, kudos, note, power, prestige, prominence, rank, renown, reputation, significance, standing, superiority, weight, famousness, illustriousness, loftiness, notability, preeminence, prepotency, prominency, repute |
| Antonyms: | inferiority, unimportance |
| Main Entry: | import |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | meaning |
| Synonyms: | bearing, bottom line*, construction, drift*, gist*, heart*, implication, intention, interpretation, meat*, message, name of the game*, nuts and bolts*, point, punch line*, purport, score*, sense, significance, stuff*, thrust, understanding, acceptation, intendment, nature of beast, significancy, signification |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | interest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attraction, curiosity |
| Synonyms: | absorption, activity, affection, care, case, concern, consequence, diversion, enthusiasm, excitement, game, hobby, importance, into, matter, moment, note, notice, passion, pastime, preoccupation, pursuit, racket, recreation, regard, relaxation, significance, sport, suspicion, sympathy, thing, attentiveness, concernment, engrossment, interestedness, leisure activity, relevance |
| Antonyms: | apathy, boredom, indifference, disinterest |
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