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Word entry · 9 letters

momentous

Best crossword clue

"Very important"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /məʊˈmɛn.təs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted emmnoostuStarts with MEnds with S1 cluesCommon crossword word
1M2O3M4E5N6T7O8U9S

Definitions

  1. Very important or having great significance.

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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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