Definitions for epochal

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epochal ep·och·al

Spelling: [ep-uh-kuh l or, esp. British, Epochal is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 213 anagrams from letters in epochal (acehlop).

Definitions for epochal

adjective

1. of, relating to, or of the nature of an epoch.
2. extremely important, significant, or influential.

Origin of epochal

First recorded in 1675-85; epoch + -al¹

Examples for epochal

Then one epochal day, emulating Tess's example, she essayed to ride astride.

The 1914 catalogue was epochal in the life of this big farmer.

In the grand scheme, this bill is not as significant as the epochal legislation of the 1930s and 1960s.

His deficiencies and self-doubts, amid his epochal mission of liberation, are precisely what make him interesting.

Historians recognize two epochal events in the life of the nation.

In 1868, Westinghouse made his epochal invention, the railway air-brake.

But in the future they will be regarded as epochal in the science of mind.

Physics—and, indeed, the rest of the world—stands at the cusp of an epochal change.

But even his dying was epochal—everything about this amazing writer resonates.

The silence lengthened until it became acute, epochal, climactic.