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Momentous vs Hazardous - What's the difference?

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Momentous is a related term of hazardous.


As adjectives the difference between momentous and hazardous

is that momentous is outstanding in importance, of great consequence while hazardous is risky, dangerous, with the nature of a hazard.

momentous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Outstanding in importance, of great consequence.
  • * 1725 , , Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business :
    • The reason why I did not publish this book till the end of the last sessions of parliament was, because I did not care to interfere with more momentous affairs.
  • * 1831 , , Homeward Bound , ch. 31:
    • "It has been a momentous month, and I hope we shall all retain healthful recollections of it as long as we live."
  • * 1902 , , The End of the Tether , ch. 3:
    • What to the other parties was merely the sale of a ship was to him a momentous event involving a radically new view of existence.
  • * 2007 July 1, , " Inferior Design," New York Times (retrieved 19 Nov 2013):
    • Natural selection is arguably the most momentous idea ever to occur to a human mind, because it — alone as far as we know — explains the elegant illusion of design that pervades the living kingdoms and explains, in passing, us.

    Derived terms

    * momentously * momentousness

    hazardous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Risky, dangerous, with the nature of a hazard.
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  • (rfc-sense) Exposing to loss or evil.
  • Of or involving chance.

    • Derived terms

    * hazardously * ultrahazardous