epoch-makingadjective
uk/ˈiː.pɒkˌmeɪ.kɪŋ/us/ˈiː.pɑːkˌmeɪ.kɪŋ/An event might be described as epoch-making if it has a great effect on the future.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Very important or urgent
- all-important
- arch
- at all cost(s) idiom
- be a matter of life and/or death idiom
- burning
- chief
- considerable
- critical
- make the world go around/round idiom
- materially
- minor league
- mission-critical
- moment
- radical
- sacred
- salient
- serious
- seriously
- substantial
- substantially
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Examples from literature
- Along with the agitation of opinion went epoch-making events.
- She stared at Roger, strangely conscious that something epoch-making and decisive had happened.
- The deed seemed curiously epoch-making, and stirred her oddly.
- The great epoch-making novel did not exist.
- The visit must be epoch-making in any life.