momentous
adjective
of great or far-reaching importance or consequence.
momentously
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a word derived from
momentous.
Example Sentences
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Chalfant’s Ruth is merely, momentously human: an older woman in need, but no less expressive of life’s fullness because of it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2025
“They have taken the greatest trivia show ever made—evidenced by its decades’ worth of continued syndication—and altered its DNA in small yet momentously stupid ways,” Luke Winkie writes.
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2024
In Davenport-Hines’s estimation, the painter was “the most momentously arrogant and self-sufficient person there.”
From Washington Post ● May 18, 2022
The year was defined by worker walkouts, strikes, and, momentously, the first North American video game union, Vodeo Workers United.
From The Verge ● Jan. 14, 2022
Even more momentously, he agreed to come to Washington to testily personally against his old friend.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
