meaningful
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mean·ing·ful (-fəl)
adjective
Related Forms:
- meaningfully mean′·ing·fully adverb
- meaningfulness mean′·ing·ful·ness noun
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Adjective complement with noun phrase
- make: Don't think you have to go to a tropical island to make time together meaningful.
Modifies a noun
- dialog: We are well prepared to engage in meaningful dialog about how schools can be better managed.
Modifying Another Word
- linguistically: Previous research focused on developing an effective, linguistically meaningful, grammatical query system.
Infinitive complement
- speak: And, back at the level of reality, it is not meaningful to speak of the Source ' willing ' .
Used with adjective complement
- become: Eventually the signs became slightly more meaningful, we were going to Wolford Chapel.
Preposition: in
- context: It seems that talking about different ' publics ' is more meaningful in this context than talking about ' the public ' .
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