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adjective

full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.

Origin:
1850–55; meaning + -ful

Related forms

mean·ing·ful·ly, adverb

mean·ing·ful·ness, noun

Synonyms
See expressive.

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People's screen names are often meaningful to them, even if they are inscrutable to others.

It is known for the quality of its programs and for meaningful engagement with the communities it serves.

On the spending side, immediate cuts are limited, though more meaningful reductions will take effect in years to come.

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People's screen names are often meaningful to them, even if they are inscrutable to others.

It is known for the quality of its programs and for meaningful engagement with the communities it serves.

On the spending side, immediate cuts are limited, though more meaningful reductions will take effect in years to come.

Visitors have few chances for a meaningful interaction.

Happier people have more meaningful conversations.

But more significant, according to advocates, home after-death care is also more meaningful for the living.

Holiday gift giving becomes much more meaningful when the gift keeps on growing.

If the optical project does detect a pulse, it's not clear what meaningful two-way communication could ensue.

Confucius taught a new way of finding the meaningful life through the cultivation of jen.

And there's no denying that it can sometimes be useful to treat the syllabus as a meaningful resource for the whole semester.

Meaningful immigration reform is not possible without meaningful agricultural reform.

Make holiday meals even more meaningful by sustaining endangered and threatened species through your food choices.

Proper treatment for all lab animals is essential if the resulting research is to be meaningful.

Exhibitions can stimulate memories and, as with fine drama, produce meaningful emotional responses.

Like framed family photos, artwork should be meaningful.

They eliminate meaningful aeronautics research, and no one screams.

Students then create their own designs for a meaningful public space, then critique each other's designs.

Because the other courses they take don't compare and contrast with the one course in any meaningful way.

It is thus difficult to say whether this target implies a meaningful price for carbon.

The better you understand a subject, the better you'll be able to capture it in a meaningful way on film.

One deals with the meaningful integration of experience at the spinal level, synapse by synapse.

Thanks to all of you for making my efforts in photography meaningful.

Apple's iWork suite is also being released in a new version today, but it looks to have almost no meaningful additions.

Digital tools offer too many conveniences and well-digested materials for students to use them in meaningful formative ways.

But the more meaningful distinction pertains to purpose.

Inflationary concerns are not a meaningful constraint at this time for the region as a whole.

Help your children use this understanding to tell a meaningful story about the community's migration story.

It is therefore timely to ask what a meaningful global agreement would entail.

It's hard to put all this together into a meaningful picture of behavior.

Many reject the idea that schools can be stacked up against one another in any meaningful way.

Ask kids for their ideas on why the seasons have historically been so meaningful to people throughout the world.

The author is lacking in any meaningful engineering literacy.

The strategy, instead, involved taking small but meaningful steps and including as many people as possible from across the campus.

Jawboning seems to have produced meaningful appreciation.

Tragically, despite these threats, the international community has failed to take any meaningful action to protect sharks.

It thus fuels the emotional energies for immediate short term responses in socially appropriate or meaningful ways.

Doing more with less can allow for greater innovation and more meaningful science, they argued in a recent policy forum.

Obviously, there are more meaningful metrics available.

Pictures in this category should focus on how people live and make their lives meaningful.

And, of course, meaningful additional sensory input changes our complex cognitive conclusion our perception of pain.

But if he ignores them, he risks completely alienating people who want to think that their votes are important and meaningful.

Today, two theories fight it out: a single planetary conjunction vs a series of meaningful celestial events.

The government needs to commit to more meaningful policies on this research.

While live births may have an impact on housing stock, it is less meaningful.

If you can describe these things in a meaningful way you have poetry.

Meaningful reform of the prison service has proven beyond the capabilities of national and provincial authorities.

Systems for which the sample space cannot be prestated seem to preclude the formation of meaningful probability statements.

At any rate, the market is squeezing out a meaningful public space.

Here are three expeditions that offer natural beauty, enjoyment and meaningful participation.

Mere numbers are not meaningful since the population in many of these regions are also growing fast.

Forty-three is a tiny sample size, much too small to draw any meaningful conclusions.

Thus opportunities for meaningful professional development are reduced.

By every meaningful metric, modern or traditional, the.

For there is the little matter of building a reactor that can run for long enough to turn out a meaningful amount of electricity.

Meaningful field study doesn't necessarily involve.

The bags were designated by pictures of things that were meaningful to each kid.

And then the sun bursts through and all is made clean and meaningful.

In any case there is, at the moment, no meaningful scale on which non-human intelligence can be compared with the human.

His conclusions are innovative and meaningful as they are based upon data.

The game lets players make meaningful decisions between bursts of filling aliens full of lead.

There's evidence that dreams reflect waking thoughts and are psychologically meaningful.

But it now seems as if another bit is suspect too: the idea that banks pay meaningful amounts of tax.

The timing behind the opening of this beta test is meaningful.

In other words, realizing that you are equipped for many options and careers can spur you to seek out other meaningful careers.

Our task now is to build on that to achieve meaningful educational reform at scale.

Hence the needs of our community remain unmet in many meaningful ways despite an outpouring of resources.

Some resources and observations for aging baby boomers who want to fill the second half of their lives with meaningful work.

If there are no meaningful differences, you are golden.

Theoretically, some of this disadvantage is offset by a rule requiring companies to announce meaningful events.

The locations of the standing stones may be as meaningful as the inscriptions.

So, laser interferometry isn't a meaningful way to detect neutrinos.

Crawford discusses how knowledge work has become vague and disconnected from the concrete, meaningful outcomes of manual labor.

Is there a meaningful distinction, or are these battles just.

Again, if your work is meaningful to you, then the process of doing it will be engaging.

Indeed, low share prices make it harder for banks to raise meaningful amounts of money without wiping out existing shareholders.

By the way, words are only as meaningful as the interpreter desires them to be.

But it remains unclear who will speak to this booming and powerful new culture to help it establish a meaningful agenda.

Arnold was noted for her ability to engage students in dialogue and to help them to design meaningful research projects.

Focusing on education, she said, could make a meaningful difference.

Still, it will be a long time before the region has meaningful markets that do a good job of mobilising savings and pricing risk.

But perhaps a more meaningful measure of fuel efficiency is fuel consumption per distance traveled.

Most musicians who use the application input abstract pictures because they can generate meaningful sounds.

But a more meaningful approach would be to allow an imaginative architect to tackle the entire complex.

So discussion of both is both appropriate and meaningful.

For some students, it may be more meaningful to simply pictorially display information about their destination.

It's easier to read and really doesn't lose any meaningful information.

It is, quite simply, a better car in every meaningful way.

Those of us who weep now, are strengthened by memories of her meaningful life.

So your letter will be personally and professionally meaningful.

It is hard to draw meaningful conclusions from a single example.

They often eschew status in order to work in meaningful jobs.

Even within the enterprise, only a handful of employees can make meaningful sense of it.

Brooks played a direct and meaningful role in shaping the education and professional direction for scores of students.

Prospects for upward social mobility and meaningful political reform were nonexistent.

Many find it hard to believe that the union will concede its power over hiring and firing in a meaningful way.

For the new breed of vacationer who craves meaningful trips and unusual locales, the combination of reading and.

Navy have begun developing an undersea craft that is designed to do meaningful science at the lowest depths routinely and cost.

We recognized value in this exchange and planned to amplify it in a meaningful and relevant manner.

Watching less television doesn't appear to change adult eating habits, but it does lead to a meaningful increase in activity.

These data is meaningful when all other format sales chart altogether.

And when not at work you forget about work and make your life meaningful.

But whether information collected from a sole geriatric volunteer will be sufficient to be meaningful is controversial.

But students can also serve as their own authentic audience when asked to create meaningful work to share with one another.

More meaningful information would be sea level rise and sea ice reduction in a complicated combination.

Making meaningful changes is difficult, and it takes time to be successful.

Dissatisfaction and indifference set in when workers feel there is no opportunity for meaningful contribution.

Meaningful innovation creates value for patients, caregivers and the system in which they receive their treatment.

Increasingly the world is hearing from small island nations and territories about the need for meaningful conservation action.

It contains no meaningful evidence, no insight and no valuable conclusion.

Now the school system's special investigator and the teachers' union are uniting behind meaningful reforms.

They could again promise cash in exchange for meaningful nuclear disarmament, and make every effort to engage him.

Filling in these gaps is crucial for any meaningful correlation of activities between the two sites.

It will be interesting to see if graphene will have a meaningful application eventually.

Today there is no meaningful check on private-sector data collection.

If you ever wamt to be involved in a wonderful and meaningful adventurego visit and maybe volunteer some time here.

But beyond the meaningful content of language, a wealth of.

Most of them are still far too touchy about sovereignty to agree on any meaningful pooling of.

More meaningful comparison should result if the following languages are used for comparative studies:.

What people really want is to be able to engage in the things that make life meaningful to them.

Make sure your referee can comment on you in a meaningful way.

It is long past time to stop messing around and start a real, meaningful effort to eliminate fossil fuels entirely.

Science relies on empiricism to develop meaningful knowledge.

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World English Dictionary

meaningful (ˈmiːnɪŋfʊl)

—*adj*
1.	having great meaning or validity
2.	eloquent, expressive: a meaningful silence

'meaningfully

—*adv*

'meaningfulness

—n

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Word Origin & History

meaningful

1852, from meaning + -ful.

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