immomentous

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From im- +‎ momentous.

Adjective[edit]

immomentous (comparative more immomentous, superlative most immomentous)

  1. Not momentous; unimportant; insignificant.
    • 1805, Anna Seward, “Letter XLI, to Miss Ponsonby”, in Letters of Anna Seward:
      And now our newspapers cease to assert the Austrian defeat immomentous, or the co-operation of Prussia certain.
    • 1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood:
      the traditional achievements connected with his memory, prove, if any proof were necessary, that he played no immomentous part upon the stage of life in his generation

References[edit]

“immomentous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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