significative
Americanadjective
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(of a sign, mark, etc) symbolic
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another word for significant
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of significative
1350–1400; Middle English (< Old French significatif, significative ) < Late Latin significātīvus denoting, equivalent to Latin significāt ( us ) (past participle of significāre to make a sign; see signify, -ate 1) + -īvus -ive
Example Sentences
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These ceremonies used in the cleansing of a leper, were mysterious and very significative.
From The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 03: Leviticus The Challoner Revision by
The E is the prefix significative of a past time.
From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson
These sculptures of St. Zeno are, however, quite quiet and tame compared with those of St. Michele of Pavia, which are designed also in a somewhat gloomier mood; significative, as I think, of indigestion.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John
And the less musical but wonderfully significative fourth, stanza— Plagas sicut Thomas non intueor, Deum tamen meum te confiteor, Fac me tibi semper magis credere, In te spem habere, te diligere.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
That the men sheltered behind the waggons have not “gone under” at the first onslaught is significative of their character.
From The Lone Ranche by Reid, Mayne
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