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epochful

epochful adjective: important, momentous.

Adjective

epochful (not comparable)

  1. important, momentous.
    • First, an habitually good child sometimes has a saturnalia of defiance and disobedience; a series of insubordinate acts are suddenly committed which really mark the first sudden epochful and belated birth of the instinct of independence and self-regulation, on which his future manliness will depend.1907, Granville Stanley Hall, Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene, page 341
    • This makes the end of the century epochful and momentous.2003, William Sweet, Mark Spencer, Race, Gender, And Supremacy, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 209

Origin of epochful

From epoch + -ful.

Questions about epochful

What does epochful mean?
Epochful means important, momentous.
What part of speech is epochful?
Epochful is an adjective.

Words near epochful in the dictionary

  1. Epochalypse
  2. epochas
  3. epoche
  4. epoched
  5. epoches
  6. epochful
  7. epoching
  8. epochism
  9. epochist
  10. epochists
  11. epochless

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