different between unmistakable vs momentous
unmistakable
English
Alternative forms
- unmistakeable
Etymology
un- +? mistake +? -able
Pronunciation
Adjective
unmistakable (comparative more unmistakable, superlative most unmistakable)
- Unique, such that it cannot be mistaken for something else.
- Antonym: mistakable
- 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter X
- Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable.
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momentous
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)
- 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.
- 1725, Daniel Defoe, Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business:
Derived terms
- momentously
- momentousness
Translations
Anagrams
- mesonotum
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