| Main Entry: | significance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | meaning |
Synonyms: |
acceptation, bottom line, connotation, drift, force, heart, implication, import, intendment, kicker, meat*, message, name of the game, nature of the beast, nitty-gritty, nub, nuts and bolts, point, punch line, purport, score, sense, significancy, signification, stuff, understanding |
Antonyms: |
insignificance, meaninglessness, unimportance |
| Main Entry: | significance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | importance |
Synonyms: |
authority, consequence, consideration, credit, excellence, gravity, import, impressiveness, influence, magnitude, matter, merit, moment, momentousness, perfection, pith, prestige, relevance, signification, virtue, weight, weightiness |
Antonyms: |
insignificance, triviality, unimportance |
| Main Entry: | accent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | importance, emphasis |
Synonyms: |
significance, stress, weight |
Antonyms: |
unimportance |
| Main Entry: | amount |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | whole effect |
Synonyms: |
body, burden, core, full value, import, matter, purport, result, sense, significance, substance, thrust, upshot, value |
| Notes: | use 'amount' with things that cannot be counted but 'number' with things that can be counted number is regularly used with count nouns, while amount is mainly used with mass nouns: number of mistakes, amount of money |
| Main Entry: | connotation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | implication |
Synonyms: |
association, coloring, essence, hint, meaning, nuance, overtone, significance, suggestion, undertone |
Antonyms: |
denotation |
| Main Entry: | content |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | essence, meaning |
Synonyms: |
burden, composition, constitution, gist, idea, matter, significance, subject, subject matter, substance, text, thought |
| Main Entry: | contents |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | elements of larger object |
Synonyms: |
capacity, cargo, chapters, connotation, constituents, details, divisions, essence, filling, freight, furnishing, gist, guts, implication, ingredients, innards, inside, lading, load, meaning, nub, packing, shipment, significance, size, space, stuffing, subject matter, subjects, substance, sum, text, themes, topics, volume |
| 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, main idea, mass, meat and potatoes, meat*, middle, midpoint, midst, nitty gritty, nub, nucleus, origin, pith, pivot, purport, quick, root, significance, staple, substance, thrust, upshot |
Antonyms: |
covering, exterior, exteriority, outside, perimeter, surface |
| Main Entry: | dignity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excellence, nobility |
Synonyms: |
address, cachet, character, consequence, courtliness, culture, decency, decorum, distinction, elevation, eminence, ethics, etiquette, glory, grace, grandeur, gravity, greatness, hauteur, honor, importance, loftiness, majesty, merit, morality, nobleness, perfection, poise, prestige, propriety, quality, rank, regard, renown, respectability, seemliness, self-respect, significance, solemnity, splendor, standing, state, stateliness, station, stature, status, sublimity, virtue, worth, worthiness |
Antonyms: |
lowliness |
| Main Entry: | drift |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | meaning, significance of communication |
Synonyms: |
aim, design, direction, end, gist, implication, import, intention, object, progress, progression, purport, scope, significance, tendency, tenor |
