immomentous

English

Etymology

From im- +‎ momentous.

Adjective

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

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

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