different between relevant vs momentous

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin relev?ns, relev?ntem, present active participle of relev? (“lift up again, lighten, relieve”), from re- (“again”) + lev? (“lift”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???l?v?nt/

Adjective

relevant (comparative more relevant, superlative most relevant)

1. Directly related, connected, or pertinent to a topic.

   His mother provided some relevant background information concerning his medical condition.

2. Not out of date; current.

Synonyms

• (directly related to a topic): applicable, germane, in point (legal), pertinent, salient; See also Thesaurus:pertinent
• (not out of date): current, prevailing, prevalent, rife, up-to-date

Antonyms

• irrelevant

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• relevant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• relevant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• levanter

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin relevans, present active participle of relev? (“lift up again, lighten, relieve”), from re- (“again”) + lev? (“lift”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

relevant (comparative relevanter, superlative relevantst)

1. relevant

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: relevan

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.l(?).v??/

Verb

relevant

1. present participle of relever

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ant

Adjective

relevant (comparative relevanter, superlative am relevantesten)

1. relevant

Declension

Synonyms

• bedeutend, maßgeblich

Antonyms

• irrelevant, unbedeutend, unmaßgeblich

Further reading

• “relevant” in Duden online

Latin

Verb

relevant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of relev?

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

relevant (neuter singular relevant, definite singular and plural relevante)

1. relevant

Antonyms

• irrelevant

Related terms

• relevans

References

• “relevant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

relevant (neuter singular relevant, definite singular and plural relevante)

1. relevant

Antonyms

• irrelevant

Related terms

• relevans

References

• “relevant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From French relevant.

Adjective

relevant m or n (feminine singular relevant?, masculine plural relevan?i, feminine and neuter plural relevante)

1. relevant

Declension

Swedish

Adjective

relevant (comparative mer relevant, superlative mest relevant)

1. relevant

Declension

Antonyms

• irrelevant

Related terms

• relevans

English

Etymology

From moment +? -ous.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m???m?n.t?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mo??m?n.t?s/
• Rhymes: -?nt?s

Adjective

momentous (comparative more momentous, superlative most momentous)

1. Outstanding in importance, of great consequence.
   • 1725, Daniel Defoe, Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business:

     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.

   • 1831, James Fenimore Cooper, Homeward Bound, ch. 31:

     "It has been a momentous month, and I hope we shall all retain healthful recollections of it as long as we live."

   • 1902, Joseph Conrad, The End of the Tether, ch. 3:

     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.

   • 2007 July 1, Richard Dawkins, "Inferior Design," New York Times (retrieved 19 Nov 2013):

     Natural selection is arguably the most momentous idea ever to occur to a human mind, because it — alone as far as we know — explains the elegant illusion of design that pervades the living kingdoms and explains, in passing, us.

Derived terms

• momentously
• momentousness

Translations

Anagrams

• mesonotum