Momentful

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Relating to or characteristic of a moment.

Definitions by Sense

1. Relating to or characteristic of a moment
2. Synonym of momentous.
3. As much as can be experienced in a moment.

Example Sentences

Our unit mite of care and trivialness, And frozen staidness and frigidity; On what shall quickly prove a confluence Of bosom ferment; yea, rack'd seas of thought, A universe of momentful concern.

I'd made up my mind to treat it right, to make it clear and strong and simple. I wanted to hit the notes as telling as a clock striking. And when I started, that full momentful thing I'd been feeling since yesterday at the foot of Ember Mountain took hold of me.

She's missing hair at her sides, as if a saddle has long rubbed her permanently raw. Her eyes are very blue, eyes void of protest or argument, full of calm, momentful existence, maybe without memory, the eyes of an animal accustomed to the rowel on her bit and a man's hard hand on her headstall.

How many moments do you have in your day that are actually momentful, meaning you are present, you are aware, and you are engaged only in what is happening right then?

Take that momentful night when WMAL-TV made its baptism into the ether.

After a comparatively momentful trip, I arrived in Odiongan about one o'clock in the afternoon.

"It was arranged," said Emilius, after a pause, during which he recalled with clearness the momentful history of the few short hours which had sealed his brother's fate, "that Patricia should leave her father's cottage at midnight, when her father was asleep.

...and it seemed to the girl that the whole wide church with its dimness, and consoling poverty (that half assured her its God was indeed the God of the poor) was filled with the faint susurration of moving lips, a momentful of sorrow cupped from the day-long stream of sorrow that flowed endlessly into this humble church of the outcast, the abandoned, the oppressed, and flowed seaward away into the boundless memory of God

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