Unmomentous

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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."

Example

More examples

"[…] 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."

Etymology

From un- + momentous.

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