adjective · academic

significant

UK/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt/US/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kənt/sig·NIF·i·cant

Band 5-6task2speaking

important or meaningful; in research often means statistically meaningful

Examples

There was a significant improvement after the training programme.

The difference was not statistically significant.

A significant number of students preferred online lectures.

Band 8 sentence

Although the change seems small, it was statistically significant and worth discussing in the conclusion.

Collocations

  • statistically significant
  • significant difference
  • a significant number

Word family

significance nounsignificantly adverb

Common mistakes

very significantlyvery significant / significantly

significant number of peoplesa significant number of people

Say it for a higher band

5important6notable7+significant

Synonyms

substantial

meaningful

Easily confused

substantial

There was a substantial increase in attendance last semester.

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