momentous
UK/məʊˈmɛn.təs//moʊˈmɛn.təs/
momentous adjective: outstanding in importance, of great consequence.
Adjective
momentous (comparative more momentous, superlative most momentous)
- 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.1725, Daniel Defoe, Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business
- "It has been a momentous month, and I hope we shall all retain healthful recollections of it as long as we live."1831, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 31, in Homeward Bound
momentous meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
momentous in Tamil
- பெரும் சிறப்பு வாய்ந்த
momentous in Urdu
- اہم, بااہمیت, یاد گاری, یادگاری
momentous in Bengali
- অত্যন্ত গুরুত্বপূর্ণ, প্রভাবশালী, স্মরণীয়
momentous in Malayalam
- significant, important, historic
- ഗൗരവമേറിയ, ഗൗരവമുള്ള, ഗൗരവാവഹമായ, അതിപ്രധാനമായ, സുപ്രധാനമായ, മുഖ്യമായ
More languagesFewer languages
- momentous in Kannada
- ಪ್ರಮುಖವಾದ, ತುಂಬ ಮುಖ್ಯವಾದ, ಮಹತ್ವಪೂರ್ಣ, ಘನ
- momentous in Sanskrit
- गुरु guru
- momentous in Arabic
- جَسِيم jasīm
- momentous in Vietnamese
- quan trọng, trọng yếu
Examples of momentous in a sentence
- 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.1902, Joseph Conrad, chapter 3, in The End of the Tether:
- The last train ran on December 31, 1932, almost unnoticed, for it coincided with the running of the last steam passenger train down the main line from London to Brighton, a much more momentous event.1952 December, R. C. Riley, “By Rail to Kemp Town”, in Railway Magazine, page 835:
Forms of momentous
| comparative | more momentous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most momentous |
Origin of momentous
From moment (“weight, importance”) + -ous.
Words formed from momentous
Questions about momentous
- What does momentous mean?
- Momentous means outstanding in importance, of great consequence.
- What is momentous in Tamil?
- Momentous in Tamil is பெரும் சிறப்பு வாய்ந்த. See Momentous meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use momentous in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is momentous?
- Momentous is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce momentous?
- Momentous is pronounced /məʊˈmɛn.təs/ (UK).
Words near momentous in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: momentous (page history and authors); momentous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); momentous (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Momentous (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); momentous (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); momentous (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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