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epochal

[ep-uh-kuhl, ee-po-]

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or of the nature of an epoch.

  2. extremely important, significant, or influential.



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Other Word Forms

  • epochally adverb
  • nonepochal adjective
  • preepochal adjective
  • unepochal adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of epochal1

First recorded in 1675–85; epoch + -al 1
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He doesn’t just distract – he rewrites the story in real time, making the serious seem trivial, and the trivial seem epochal.

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Pember’s journalism and advocacy, along with that of a growing number of writers and activists, both Native and not, are making clear the scope and impact of one major pillar of this epochal injustice.

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“One to One” spends no time rehashing Lennon’s professional highlights from that era — how his spare, epochal 1970 solo record “Plastic Ono Band” paved the way for the follow-up album “Imagine” about nine months later.

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Clearly, we are at the threshold of epochal change.

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Just as uncontrollable financial, demographic and other forces have wreaked havoc in Hollywood, California’s wine industry is now reeling from epochal stresses that are grinding down yet another mainstay of the state’s economy.

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