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Princeton's WordNet

  1. significantlyadverb

    in a statistically significant way

    "the two groups differed significantly"

  2. significantlyadverb

    in a significant manner

    "our budget will be significantly affected by these new cuts"

  3. importantly, significantlyadverb

    in an important way or to an important degree

    "more importantly, Weber held that the manifold meaning attached to the event by the social scientist could alter his definition of the concrete event itself"

Wiktionary

  1. significantlyadverb

    In a significant manner or to a significant extent.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Significantlyadverb

    With force of expression.

    Etymology: from significant.

    Christianity is known in Scripture by no name so significantly as by the simplicity of the Gospel. Robert South, Sermons.

ChatGPT

  1. significantly

    Significantly refers to a condition or factor that is large enough to have a meaningful or noticeable effect or importance. It can mean being highly relevant, noteworthy, or substantial. It could also refer to statistical relevance, where a result or outcome is unlikely to have happened by chance.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Significantlyadverb

    in a significant manner

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'significantly' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2418

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'significantly' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4205

  3. Adverbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'significantly' in Adverbs Frequency: #197

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of significantly in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of significantly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of significantly in a Sentence

  1. Freeman Shen:

    Building a fancy car to impress people is actually fairly easy as long as you're willing to spend the money, the most challenging part is mass production - coming up with a car everybody can buy, with high quality but at a significantly lower cost.

  2. Vice President Biden:

    I'm not being a wise guy about the wall and the President, all that, for real, my word, but instead of building more barriers, if it's drugs you're talking about, we can take one tenth of the amount of money we're talking about building the wall and significantly increase the technological capability at legal ports of entry because that's where 95 % of all the stuff is coming through.

  3. David Caon:

    We began designing this aircraft cabin five years ago, working with Airbus and Qantas to maximize space, as well as creating a tailored lighting program that will influence mood and sleep patterns, all the design and service elements will work together to significantly improve inflight comfort, convenience and health and well-being and help minimize the old nemesis of jetlag.

  4. John Brick:

    Eating food loaded with protein and carbohydrates can significantly slow down the absorption of alcohol, the slower the alcohol gets to your brain, the less rapid the ‘ shock ’ to your brain.

  5. Aitan Goelman:

    His conduct was at least significantly responsible for the order imbalance that in turn was one of the conditions that led to the flash crash.

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