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
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How to use meaningful in a sentence
Good conversation and meaningful commonalities were enough to keep the curiosity going.
Date Lab update: Their boots matched, at least! Here’s what happened next. | Damona Hoffman | November 12, 2020 | Washington PostThis can be meaningful for your retention marketing and also serve as an opportunity for your acquisition marketing and content SEO strategy.
Holiday marketing: Get the data that puts you ahead of the competition | Sarah Mehlman | November 10, 2020 | Search Engine WatchThe election raised $22,985 for the historical society, which will make a meaningful contribution toward tending to the town’s historic buildings.
After a tight race, a French bulldog was elected mayor of this small Kentucky town | Sydney Page | November 9, 2020 | Washington PostTo watch him grow up, and to be around him and to give him some advice from time to time has really been meaningful for me.
Chase Elliott wins first Cup Series title, joins father Bill as NASCAR champion | Des Bieler | November 9, 2020 | Washington PostThat evening, a federal judge heard arguments from attorneys who wanted to stop the counting in Nevada’s Clark County because Republicans could not conduct “meaningful observation.”
It began on a gold escalator. It may have ended at Four Seasons Total Landscaping. | Dan Zak, Karen Heller | November 8, 2020 | Washington Post
If not for meaningfulness, what other reason is there to watch a movie that makes you feel bad?
The Science of Weepies: Why We Love Crying at the Movies | Elizabeth Picciuto | June 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThey also watch films for insight, enlightenment, and meaningfulness.
The Science of Weepies: Why We Love Crying at the Movies | Elizabeth Picciuto | June 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTJug denied the meaningfulness of brain structure as an indication of intellect.
Creatures of the Abyss | Murray LeinsterShe giggled still more and her eyes assumed a coy meaningfulness that increased my discomfort.
The Woman Who Vowed | Ellison Harding
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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