meaningful
- adjective
- /ˈmiːnɪŋfəl/
- The teacher wants her lessons to be meaningful and relevant to students' lives.
- a meaningful experience
- a meaningful difference
- meaningful relationships
That's what I think a meaningful life is.
- That's what I think a meaningful life is.
- Now you're creating content that is meaningful to your customer.
- You made that Saturday more meaningful and you deserve to feel that.
- And it turns out that there are meaningful ways to address that.
- Training up new generations doesn't seem like a very meaningful life, you know?
- And that option and that choice is extraordinarily meaningful and powerful.
Examples
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There will be ample time for a more meaningful visit in the week to come.
Fiction book (1991) -
What is a satisfying and meaningful way of living for that person?
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And it's among the most meaningful experiences of your life.
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Their life was better and more meaningful than the other two groups.
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And it turns out that there are meaningful ways to address that.
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And did you two have a meaningful relationship?
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Memories are organized around what is meaningful and important to the individual.
Academic text (2011) -
We have an obligation to promote meaningful changes in the real world.
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Now you're creating content that is meaningful to your customer.
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They're all striving to live a meaningful life with less.
Synonyms
A person or thing that matters a lot
Important and big enough to make a difference
Very important for the success or result of something
An activity that is good to do because it gives useful or important results
Important and having real meaning or value
Important because it changes what happens next
Worth paying attention to because it is important or interesting
About the main, basic part of something
Antonyms
How Meaningful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word meaningful comes from the word meaning ('what something means') and the ending -ful ('full of'), so something meaningful is 'full of meaning' and has a clear purpose or importance.