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meaningful definition

mean·ing·ful (-fəl)

adjective

full of meaning; having significance or purpose

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meaningful Synonyms

meaningful

modif.

significant, exact, essential; see important 1.


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meaningful Usage Examples

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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