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momentous

adj
/məʊˈmɛn.təs/UK/moʊˈmɛn.təs/US

Etymology

From moment (“weight, importance”) + -ous.

  1. derived from mōmentum
  2. derived from moment
  3. inherited from moment
  4. suffixed as momentous — “moment + ous”

Definitions

  1. Outstanding in importance, of great consequence.

    • The reason why I did not publish this book till the end of the last sessions of parliament was, because I did not care to interfere with more momentous affairs.
    • "It has been a momentous month, and I hope we shall all retain healthful recollections of it as long as we live."
    • What to the other parties was merely the sale of a ship was to him a momentous event involving a radically new view of existence.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA