meaningless vs significant

meaningless

adj
  • Lacking meaning. 

  • Insignificant; not worthy of importance. 

significant

adj
  • Signifying something; carrying meaning. 

  • Reasonably large in number or amount. 

  • Having a low probability of occurring by chance (for example, having high correlation and thus likely to be related). 

  • Having a covert or hidden meaning. 

  • Having a noticeable or major effect. 

noun
  • That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol. 

How often have the words meaningless and significant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )