Word Meanings - SIGNIFICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of signifying; a making known by signs or other means. A signification of being pleased. Landor. All speaking or signification of one's mind implies an act or addres of one man to another. South. 2. That which is signified or made known;

Additional info about word: SIGNIFICATION

1. The act of signifying; a making known by signs or other means. A signification of being pleased. Landor. All speaking or signification of one's mind implies an act or addres of one man to another. South. 2. That which is signified or made known; that meaning which a sign, character, or token is intended to convey; as, the signification of words.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SIGNIFICATION)

• Acceptation
• Meaning
• significant
• signification
• Importance
• weight
• moment
• consequence
• significance
• avail
• concern
• Purport
• Tendency
• meaning
• import
• bearing
• drift
• tenor
• current
• intent
• spirit
• Sense
• Perception
• sensation
• feeling
• apprehension
• recognition
• understanding
• discernment
• appreciation
• sentiment
• view
• opinion
• judgment
• reason
• consciousness
• notion
• purport
• soundness
• sagacity
• wisdom
• Voice
• Tone
• utterance
• language
• articulation
• words
• expression
• vote
• suffrage
• say
• control

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SIGNIFICATION)

• Fail
• fall
• disappoint
• betray
• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct

Related words: (words related to SIGNIFICATION)

• JUDGMENT
  The final award; the last sentence. Note: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Note: Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining
• SPIRITUOUS
  1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
• AVAILABLENESS
  1. Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title. 2. Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended. Sir M. Hale.
• OPINIONATOR
  An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.
• SENSE
  A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• DRIFTBOLT
  A bolt for driving out other bolts.
• PURPORTLESS
  Without purport or meaning.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• REASONING
  1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.
• IMPORTUNELY
  In an importune manner.
• APPREHENSION
  1. The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped. 3. The act of grasping with the
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• SPIRITUALIZE
  To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• WORDSMAN
  One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. "Some speculative wordsman." H. Bushnell.
• MOMENTARILY
  Every moment; from moment to moment. Shenstone.
• SPIRITUOSITY
  The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness.
• REASONLESS
  1. Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind. Shak. 2. Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak.
• FEELINGLY
  In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.
• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• PARAVAIL
  At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• OVERLANGUAGED
  Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
• MISDEMEAN
  To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
• INCONSEQUENCE
  The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.
• DEMEANURE
  Behavior. Spenser.
• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• INSENSE
  To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• JAPAN CURRENT
  A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• REMEANT
  Coming back; returning. "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley.