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life-changing

/ˈlaɪfˌt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒɪŋ/

life-changing adjective: having a significant effect on the course of one's life.

Adjective

life-changing (comparative more life-changing, superlative most life-changing)

  1. Having a significant effect on the course of one's life.
    • My trek across the Amazon was a life-changing event.
    • Those people who eventually become millionaires typically don't get there through sheer luck or by making one life-changing investment.2017 May 16, Maurie Backman, “Here's how to become a millionaire on $56,000 a year”, in CNN Money, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2025
  2. (euphemistic) Causing disability.
    • With this understanding, zero preventable deaths and life-changing injuries becomes more than a vision, but instead a realistically ambitious goal.2018 July 16, Michèle Pezzagno, Maurizio Tira, Town and Infrastructure Planning for Safety and Urban Quality: Proceedings of the XXIII International Conference on Living and Walking in Cities (LWC...
    • His life-changing injuries gave him bleak chances of employment, and he was told that he was unable to have the operation he needed for his injured leg until he was 55 - a 15-year wait.2020 May 6, Paul Stephen, “Britain's bravest thinks big”, in Rail, page 62

Forms of life-changing

comparativemore life-changing
superlativemost life-changing
alternative formlifechanging

Origin of life-changing

From life + changing.

Words formed from life-changing

Questions about life-changing

What does life-changing mean?
Life-changing means having a significant effect on the course of one's life.
What part of speech is life-changing?
Life-changing is an adjective.
How do you pronounce life-changing?
Life-changing is pronounced /ˈlaɪfˌt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒɪŋ/.

Words near life-changing in the dictionary

  1. life-buoy
  2. life-buoys
  3. life-car
  4. life-care
  5. life-cars
  6. life-changing
  7. life-changingly
  8. life-critical
  9. life-cycle
  10. life-cycles
  11. life-dinner principle

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