significantly

UK/sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəntli/US/sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəntli/

adverbB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #8,966 of 15,258mostly written

Significantly means to an extent that really matters. Significantly higher, significantly improved, paused significantly.

It has two lives: in ordinary writing it means by a lot, and in statistics it means unlikely to be chance, which need not be large at all. That gap is where a great many misreported findings come from.

Definitions of significantly

1adverbsignificantlyTo an extent that really matters.B2+
“Prices have gone up significantly since last year.”

significantly is a manner.

Where it comes from

From significant + -ly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

significantly in the wild

The boundaries may be drawn significantly differently depending on the source of the definition.
Northern America
The study also provided data clearly showing that helmets significantly reduce deaths and brain injuries without any increased risk of accident involvement or neck injury.
Hurt Report
The use of retail geography has grown significantly in the 2000s as a result of the use of geographic information systems (GIS).
Retail geography
The volcanoes of the Uranius group were active for short periods of time and are significantly older than the major Tharsis volcanoes.
Uranius group of volcanoes
British architect Richard Norman Shaw significantly influenced Richardson.
Inglenook

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