meaningful
full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink;a meaningful choice.
Origin of meaningful
1Other words from meaningful
- mean·ing·ful·ly, adverb
- mean·ing·ful·ness, noun
Words Nearby meaningful
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How to use meaningful in a sentence
Murray said the number of digital subscribers is in the tens of thousands range while the revenue earned from that business was not yet a meaningful portion of the publication’s overall revenue.
Fortune Connect is bringing its conference business to a larger audience, with a higher price tag | Kayleigh Barber | September 15, 2020 | DigidayShe leads all rookies1 in block percentage, she’s third in effective field-goal percentage, and she’s playing meaningful minutes for a Seattle team that leads the WNBA.
Which Players Have A Shot At Becoming WNBA Rookie Of The Year? | Howard Megdal | September 11, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightThat’s why it would be important for the new agency to have a technically sophisticated staff and meaningful access to company data.
Why the most controversial US internet law is worth saving | Amy Nordrum | September 9, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewToday’s riots, still relatively rare, roil after years of legal logjams and gridlock on meaningful policing reform.
Kenosha’s looting is a symptom of a decrepit democracy | Aaron Ross Coleman | September 4, 2020 | VoxDuring the pandemic, with hooking up really off the table, we’ve really seen that accelerate a strong demand for services and apps that provide more meaningful connections.
Match’s CEO explains how dating has changed during the COVID pandemic | Danielle Abril | September 3, 2020 | Fortune
We have richer, healthier lives and more meaningful relationships of all kinds.
How Good Dads Can Change the World | Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTCarla points out how meaningful it can be to have people in your life who simply understand what you're going through.
Everyone at This Dinner Party Has Lost Someone | Samantha Levine | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTIf they were meaningful, we might have realized it before—surely one of these kids wore a cross, or a yarmulke, or a hijab?
He posted on Facebook about wanting to do something “right” and meaningful.
Yet meaningful negotiations to free the hostages have failed to get off the ground.
A Sunni-Shia Love Story Imperiled by al Qaeda | Ruth Michaelson | December 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOne may be good at organizing meaningful material but poor at remembering mere words.
The Science of Human Nature | William Henry PyleOnly when bedtime came did the continued silence of his mother become meaningful.
Bunker Bean | Harry Leon WilsonThen the teacher has the wonderful experience of mutual attention in which meaningful communication has taken place.
Herein is Love | Reuel L. HoweMachismo was more meaningful to the average estate than education.
The Haciendas of Mexico | Paul Alexander BartlettFamiliarity with the biological components of an ecosystem is essential to meaningful radiobiological assessment.
Atoms, Nature, and Man | Neal O. Hines
British Dictionary definitions for meaningful
/ (ˈmiːnɪŋfʊl) /
having great meaning or validity
eloquent, expressive: a meaningful silence
Derived forms of meaningful
- meaningfully, adverb
- meaningfulness, noun
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