Crossword-Solution: MOMENTOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Momentous | a. | Of moment or consequence; very important; weighty; as, a momentous decision; momentous affairs. |
We have 34 clues for the answer “MOMENTOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| of very great significance | 1 answer |
| of great significance | 1 answer |
| deciding to drop the atom bomb was a very big decision | 1 answer |
| Earth shaking | 2 answers |
| Kind of occasion | 2 answers |
| Very important | 11 answers |
| eventful | 13 answers |
| Moment of truth | 16 answers |
| instantaneous | 25 answers |
| minatory | 26 answers |
| Fatal | 49 answers |
| grievous | 61 answers |
| Imperative | 61 answers |
| Helpful | 63 answers |
| meaningful | 63 answers |
| climacteric | 64 answers |
| Weighty | 64 answers |
| presageful | 65 answers |
| Cautionary ___ | 65 answers |
| catastrophic | 65 answers |
| piteous | 66 answers |
| scowling | 67 answers |
| Impending | 67 answers |
| Repugnant | 68 answers |
| apocalyptic | 68 answers |
| unpropitious | 72 answers |
| damned | 73 answers |
| Forbidding | 74 answers |
| Menacing | 75 answers |
| detrimental | 76 answers |
| Imminent | 80 answers |
| Signifi-cant | 85 answers |
| Direct | 98 answers |
| Key | 99 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MOMENTOUS (5)
Hester could only account for the child’s character—and even then most vaguely and imperfectly—by recalling what she herself had been during that momentous period while Pearl was imbibing her soul from the spiritual world, and her bodily frame from its material of earth.
She used to walk round and round this terrible man and his terrible horse, frowning at him, brooding upon him, as if she had to make some momentous decision about him.
She could not see, for her eyes were closed; she could not hear, for the noise from the ball-room drowned the soft rustle of that momentous scrap of paper; nevertheless she knew—as if she had both seen and heard—that Sir Andrew was even now holding the paper to the flame of one of the candles.
The First Customer Miss Hepzibah Pyncheon sat in the oaken elbow-chair, with her hands over her face, giving way to that heavy down-sinking of the heart which most persons have experienced, when the image of hope itself seems ponderously moulded of lead, on the eve of an enterprise at once doubtful and momentous.
Fully assured in his own mind that his daughter had been picked up by a passing steamer, he gave over the last vestige of apprehension concerning her welfare, and devoted his giant intellect solely to the consideration of those momentous and abstruse scientific problems which he considered the only proper food for thought in one of his erudition.
Quotes with MOMENTOUS (3)
When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, he exposed the world to a momentous discovery . For the first time in history, human beings were seen not as creatures of divine origin, but instead, as a product of nature, an animal like every other on the planet. Imagine yourself back in that amazing year. The day before Darwin’s book was published, you wake up thinking yourself the image of God; the next morning you realize you have the face of a monkey. Not …
... I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and yet momentous coming of the sense of self into the world of the mental.
Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1971–1996).