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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
meaningful
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a meaningful glance (=clearly showing what you think)
▪ They exchanged meaningful glances.
a valid/useful/meaningful comparison (=a reasonable one, based on sensible information)
▪ There is not enough data for a valid comparison to be made.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ Nevertheless there are certain minimal logical conditions that must be satisfied before any references to ontological existents can be accepted as meaningful.
▪ This freedom enables Eliot to find the proper niche for art, science, poetry and metaphysics as meaningful, liberating endeavors.
▪ It is the belief in the need for museums to make their collections as meaningful as possible to their audiences.
▪ No pep talk is going to be as meaningful as sinking a basket or two.
▪ The context of the discourse of anthropology provides constraints on the form of a statement that will be recognized as meaningful.
▪ Carrie wished it might have been as meaningful to Seb.
▪ Also about as close and as meaningful a human contact as one could dream of.
more
▪ But some choices are more meaningful than others, because they are more marked than others.
▪ What would you like changed to make your work more meaningful?
▪ Fortunately there have been a large number of more recent studies which have used more meaningful manipulations of arousal.
▪ One response to these problems has been new efforts to link work and school in a more meaningful way.
▪ At the time Pete was fifty, making the challenge of his biking this wilderness more meaningful than my personal quest.
▪ What kind of work would be more meaningful for you?
▪ A career in congress had now become more meaningful with openings for committee or sub-committee chairmanships widespread.
▪ But more meaningful research has come along since then, with far less fanfare.
most
▪ His views and mine are exactly similar in most meaningful respects.
▪ The ceremony was perhaps most meaningful for Hazzard, who was fired as coach in 1988.
▪ Those Volunteers for whom the experience was most meaningful were those who acquired clear insights into the problems confronting a developing society.
▪ In order to visualize the patterns of waste flow, it is most meaningful to aggregate these wastes by county.
▪ Here's a tough but effective way of honing in on the most meaningful elements of your life.
▪ But when leaders shape visions that are too wordy, peo-ple edit out all but the most meaningful aspirations.
very
▪ I shall be perfectly happy at home this summer, having a very meaningful relationship with Signorina Berlitz.
▪ The ability of UDAGs to leverage private dollars is not very meaningful if those dollars would have been invested anyway.
▪ Overall, research shows that the commercials are very meaningful to Guinness drinkers and reinforce its reputations as a tonic.
▪ This is a very meaningful step.
■ NOUN
comparison
▪ I see no basis for meaningful comparison between solicitors and mediators.
▪ Too few characters for meaningful comparison.
glance
▪ But this time he drew out his knife and showed it to me with a meaningful glance.
▪ They exchanged meaningful glances from time to time - and it was apparent that his brother was as troubled as he by the disturbing events.
▪ Benjamin indicated with meaningful glances at me that this stark, sombre evening was such an appropriate time.
▪ Lots of meaningful glances and repressed passion as only the Victorians knew how.
look
▪ All he could produce was a stiff upper lip, while young Lady C cast meaningful looks at sturdy gamekeeper Mellors.
relationship
▪ I shall be perfectly happy at home this summer, having a very meaningful relationship with Signorina Berlitz.
▪ Thus, one may develop various analytical measures to portray meaningful relationships and extract information from raw financial data.
sense
▪ Yet he won't, in any meaningful sense, sign.
▪ They were not friends in any meaningful sense.
▪ In the extreme cases, this type of foreign investment will not upgrade the host economy in any meaningful sense.
▪ In Sierra Leone, cultural participation in a meaningful sense often comes slowly and always by invitation.
way
▪ Reporting on the progress of five-year-olds in foundation subjects such as history and geography in a meaningful way taxes most teachers.
▪ Yet we systematically deny these individuals the opportunity to engage in meaningful ways with the adult world.
▪ Calculate the weekly time spent on this and resolve to use it in a meaningful way.
▪ One response to these problems has been new efforts to link work and school in a more meaningful way.
▪ But it is debatable whether this could be explicated in any meaningful way.
▪ I know of no way in which a drug can modify the stored information in any meaningful way.
▪ The question is rather whether the accounts ought to record it in a meaningful way.
▪ However, employees could not participate in a meaningful way in problem-solving efforts without access to information about company performance.
work
▪ I agree, but it must be meaningful work.
▪ He thought that we get in touch with the world and others through meaningful work.
▪ This can be achieved by good links with industry and allowing them access to meaningful work experience.
▪ But they also point to the benefits of meaningful work in building self-esteem.
▪ What is it about meaningful work that is so satisfying, that inspires people to take great risks?
▪ Social scientists have said that meaningful work is a response to the needs of society.
▪ Entrepreneurs say that their enjoyment of meaningful work often springs from a deep interest in some hobby or other pursuit.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ My father showed us that life is not meaningful without work.
▪ The data isn't very meaningful to anyone but a scientist.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Diplomats say that immunity should not be used to avoid culpability, but it has had a meaningful place in international law.
▪ Figures such as these are not particularly meaningful because the information is highly aggregated.
▪ Furthermore, it is not clear what concept would be assigned to a sentence, though sentences are clearly meaningful.
▪ If this power has been transferred elsewhere, meaningful accountability has ceased to exist.
▪ Is such a proposition indeed meaningful?
▪ Ralph Berger assessed the effects of meaningful verbal stimuli on dreaming.
▪ Useful semantic information therefore facilitates the incidence of meaningful strong overlaps in normal text.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
meaningful

meaningful \meaningful\ adj. Having a meaning or purpose; having significance; as, a meaningful explanation; a meaningful discussion; a meaningful pause; to live a meaningful life. Opposite of meaningless. [Narrower terms: comprehensible, understandable; indicative, significative, suggestive ; {meaty, substantive ; {purposeful] Also See: purposeful, significant, important.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
meaningful

1827, from meaning (n.) + -ful. Related: Meaningfully.

Wiktionary
meaningful

a. Having meaning, significant.

WordNet
meaningful

adj. having a meaning or purpose; "a meaningful explanation"; "a meaningful discussion"; "a meaningful pause" [ant: meaningless]

Usage examples of "meaningful".

The fact that philosophers, modelers and neurobiologists are actually listening to one another, and that computer people have at last begun to show some respect for biological as well as artefactual brains, clearly makes their analyses an advance over the earlier ones, in which Al enthusiasts tended to run away with preconceived notions of what nerve cells did, and soon cut off all meaningful contact with the biological phenomena which the neurobiologists were studying.

Since the three heroes are not conscious of one another, they can be made meaningful to one another only in the authorial, and authoritative, field of vision that encompasses them all.

American life, crowding out a more meaningful set of values centered on family, responsibility, and community.

They will allow meaningful statements about dogs and cats, because they are organic as distinct from inorganic, mammals as distinct from marsupials, and, though frisky, have clearly defined boundaries which demark them from the whole world of non-dogs and non-cats.

This salad is healthy, offering 720 milligrams of potassium and meaningful doses of calcium, vitamin A, and folic acid.

I can find no awareness of meaningful things, and although you seek the right ginseng root, you do so for the wrong reason.

Whether this was a meaningful distinction or just happenstance was subject to debate.

After four days and nights without any meaningful amounts of sleep, plus the stress, the constant fear, little foodand that cold and greasy or cold and dry, and only a few, precious drops of water that reeked of a Lyster bag with which to wash it downand unending exertion, he and the ragged remnant of a rifle company tended to instinctively dive into sleep, regardless of the numbing, murderous cold, the cutting wind, no matter whether they were prone, sitting, squatting, or just standing still.

I asked with a meaningful cut of my eyes that Maidie read like a book.

She gave him chances without end to say something meaningful, but he always muffed it.

She gave Nitpicker a meaningful look, then glanced deliberately downtrail.

The people might have been too obtunded to reply with anything meaningful.

Master Den gave him a nod to signal the end of meaningful conversation, or perhaps the beginning of a lesson, Llesho could never quite tell when the washerman was teaching and when he was making small talk.

It was as if they were all in possession of some secret that they were reluctant to share with her and Jenny was miserable, intercepting strange, meaningful glances between Melia and Ned and half-hearing conversations among the three of them, which, in her presence, broke off abruptly and were continued when she left them.

But I think I can provide meaningful sounds for our notation, which means all we have to do is come up with a metalogical language.