epoch-making

Examples

• All

• Yet this epoch-making feat... failed to impress a disinterested public.

  Victory Through Air Power (1943)

• Any attempt to undermine the liturgical reform of Vatican II reveals a clearly reductionist view of the council and its epoch-making changes.

  Academic text (2010)

• The five witnesses of this epoch-making flight... were too startled, too thrilled to cheer.

  Victory Through Air Power (1943)

• British Museum scholar T.A. Joyce suggested that archaeology there would be pioneering and "epoch-making."

  Academic text (2003)

• Cage, who died in 1992, achieved world fame and lasting influence in 1952 when his epoch-making anti-composition 4'33" was first performed.

  Academic text (2000)

• And whatever the exact characteristics of the most ancient hominid may have been, there is no question that the adoption of upright locomotion on the ground was an epoch-making event for our hominid family.

  Academic text (2003)

• We were both much excited in 1937 when our mutual friend and most eminent companion in research work, Theodosius Dobzhansky, published his epoch-making book, Genetics and the Origin of Species.

  Academic text (1999)

• Despite the significance of many unprecedented and lasting historical transformations, the Twentieth Century may well be remembered for two epoch-making milestones that are now seemingly close to their final stages.

  Academic text (1993)

• The Massachusetts desegregation act of 1855 was truly epoch-making in that, departing from a passive attitude of non-discrimination, it specifically prohibited racial discrimination for the first time in the history of the United States.

  Academic text (2002)

• The invention of the internet was an epoch-making advancement in communication.

Synonyms

E

epochal

vsepoch-making

• Formal

3 9.3

Very important and marking the start of a new era

is written as a hyphenated descriptive phrase rather than one word

Antonyms

I

insignificant

104 4.1

Not important or too small to matter

U

unimportant

54 1.9

Not worth attention or notice

How Significant

epoch-making

• Formal

1 8.8

revolutionary

103 5.2

important

∞ 1.0

significant

∞ 2.5

notable

112 3.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology