Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or characteristic of an epoch.
- adj. Highly significant or important; momentous: epochal decisions made by Roosevelt and Churchill.
- adj. Without parallel: epochal stupidity.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Belonging to an epoch; of the nature of an epoch; relating to epochs; marking an epoch.
Wiktionary
- adj. of or pertaining to an epoch
- adj. highly important or significant; monumentous, epoch-making
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Belonging to an epoch; of the nature of an epoch.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era
Examples
“Clement Nyirenda also remarks on how the punditry got it wrong, and finds the voting pattern for the incumbent president's win epochal:”
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“The word epochal is overstated, but it felt like it then and it has subsequently proved to be that.”
“True, Barack Obama was elected president in a political upheaval that can only be described as epochal, but, well, you don't really think Cheney's just going to quietly vacate his office come January 20th, do you?”
“Well, but of this God Abraham asks -- in what I must continue to call the epochal sentence in the”
“From what I can gather there have been some what could be called epochal shifting events within the Marvel universe as it currently stands.”
“The move, described as "epochal" by media commentators, will see all Guardian content tailored to fit the format of Twitter's brief text messages, known as "tweets", which are limited to 140 characters each.”
“Citing the enviable success of the Wall Street Journal's growing online subscription revenues, Murdoch said that newspapers were experiencing an "epochal" debate over charging consumers for content.”
“Some of us -- especially those under 60 -- have always wondered what it would be like to live through the kind of epochal event one reads about in books.”
RJ Eskow: Is the Crisis Your Fault? or, Epochal Events On the Easy Credit Plan
“Josh Marshall links to a piece by Fareed Zakaria which begins this way: Some of us -- especially those under 60 -- have always wondered what it would be like to live through the kind of epochal event one r ...”
RJ Eskow: Is the Crisis Your Fault? or, Epochal Events On the Easy Credit Plan
“Though it won't be easy for the Republicans to match that kind of epochal spectacle at their convention this week, they still have a shot at groundbreaking drama, thanks largely to the vice presidential nomination of Sarah Palin, the rootin'est, tootin'est, unvetted'est first-term governor in these United States.”
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