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unmomentous

unmomentous adjective: not momentous.

Adjective

unmomentous (comparative more unmomentous, superlative most unmomentous)

  1. Not momentous.
    • […] and though the Parsee's mystic watch was without intermission as his own; yet these two never seemed to speak—one man to the other—unless at long intervals some passing unmomentous matter made it necessary.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Forms of unmomentous

comparativemore unmomentous
superlativemost unmomentous

Origin of unmomentous

From un- + momentous.

Words formed from unmomentous

Questions about unmomentous

What does unmomentous mean?
Unmomentous means not momentous.
What part of speech is unmomentous?
Unmomentous is an adjective.

Words near unmomentous in the dictionary

  1. unmollified
  2. unmollifying
  3. unmolted
  4. unmolten
  5. unmomentary
  6. unmomentous
  7. unmomentously
  8. unmonarch
  9. unmonarched
  10. unmonarchic
  11. unmonarchical

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