epochal
English
Adjective
epochal (comparative more epochal, superlative most epochal)
- Of or pertaining to an epoch.
- (figurative) Highly important or significant; monumental, epoch-making.
- 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 250:
- It had been an epochal decade for cancer epidemiology, but equally, an epochal decade for tobacco.
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /epɔˈχaːl/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aːl
Adjective
epochal (strong nominative masculine singular epochaler, comparative epochaler, superlative am epochalsten)
- epochal
- 1924, Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain], volume 1, Berlin: S. Fischer, page 30:
- „Epochal!“ sagte Hans Castorp. „Epochal für die Entwicklung unserer Schiffahrt, – gar nicht zu überschätzen. Wir setzen fünfzig Millionen als sofortige einmalige Ausgabe dafür ins Budget, und du kannst überzeugt sein, wir wissen genau, was wir tun.“
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Declension
Positive forms of epochal
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist epochal | sie ist epochal | es ist epochal | sie sind epochal | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | epochaler | epochale | epochales | epochale |
genitive | epochalen | epochaler | epochalen | epochaler | |
dative | epochalem | epochaler | epochalem | epochalen | |
accusative | epochalen | epochale | epochales | epochale | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der epochale | die epochale | das epochale | die epochalen |
genitive | des epochalen | der epochalen | des epochalen | der epochalen | |
dative | dem epochalen | der epochalen | dem epochalen | den epochalen | |
accusative | den epochalen | die epochale | das epochale | die epochalen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein epochaler | eine epochale | ein epochales | (keine) epochalen |
genitive | eines epochalen | einer epochalen | eines epochalen | (keiner) epochalen | |
dative | einem epochalen | einer epochalen | einem epochalen | (keinen) epochalen | |
accusative | einen epochalen | eine epochale | ein epochales | (keine) epochalen |
Comparative forms of epochal
Superlative forms of epochal
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