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| Main Entry: | historic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | momentous, remarkable |
| Synonyms: | celebrated, consequential, extraordinary, famous, important, memorable, notable, outstanding, red-letter*, significant, well-known |
| Notes: | historic means 'noteworthy, highly significant,' whereas historical means 'pertaining to history, relevant to the passage of time'; if something has a place in history, it is historic, and if something has to do with the subject of history, it is historical |
| Antonyms: | unimportant, unremarkable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | eventful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | significant, busy |
| Synonyms: | active, consequential, critical, crucial, decisive, exciting, fateful, full, historic, important, lively, memorable, momentous, notable, noteworthy, outstanding, remarkable, signal |
| Antonyms: | dull, insignificant, normal, ordinary, trivial, uneventful, usual, unnoteworthy |
| Main Entry: | memorable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | noteworthy, significant |
| Synonyms: | catchy, celebrated, critical, crucial, decisive, distinguished, enduring, eventful, extraordinary, famous, great, heavy*, historic, hot*, illustrious, important, impressive, indelible, interesting, lasting, meaningful, mind-blowing*, momentous, monumental, notable, observable, red-letter*, remarkable, serious, signal, something, striking, super, terrible, terrific, top-drawer, unforgettable, A-1*, big-league*, bodacious, doozie, heavyweight, major-league, rememberable, rubric, standout, surpassing |
| Antonyms: | insignificant, forgettable, unimpressive, unnoteworthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | momentous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | important; serious |
| Synonyms: | big, consequential, considerable, critical, crucial, decisive, eventful, far-reaching, fateful, grave, heavy, historic, material, meaningful, memorable, notable, outstanding, pivotal, significant, substantial, vital, weighty, chips are down, earth-shaking, earth-shattering, epochal, heavy number, of moment |
| Antonyms: | immaterial, insignificant, trifling, trivial, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | monumental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | impressive, overwhelming |
| Synonyms: | awe-inspiring, awesome, classic, enduring, enormous, fantastic, gigantic, grand, great, historic, huge, immense, immortal, important, lasting, lofty, majestic, mammoth, massive, memorable, mighty, mortal, mountainous, outstanding, prodigious, significant, stupendous, towering, tremendous, unforgettable, vast |
| Antonyms: | insignificant, trivial, unimportant, unimposing, unimpressive |
| Main Entry: | time-honored |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | traditional |
| Synonyms: | accustomed, ancestral, classic, classical, conventional, customary, fixed, folk, historic, old, popular, regular, rooted, standard, universal, usual, vintage, widespread, long-established, taken for granted |
| Main Entry: | traditional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, established |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, accustomed, acknowledged, ancestral, classic, classical, common, conventional, customary, fixed, folk, habitual, historic, immemorial, old, oral, popular, prescribed, regular, rooted, sanctioned, time-honored, universal, unwritten, widespread, doctrinal, long-established, taken for granted, transmitted, widely used |
| Antonyms: | fresh, new, unusual, unestablished, unfixed, untraditional |
| Main Entry: | unforgettable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | memorable |
| Synonyms: | catchy, distinguished, enduring, eventful, exceptional, extraordinary, famous, great, historic, illustrious, important, lasting, meaningful, monumental, notable, noteworthy, remarkable, remembered, significant, super, not to be forgotten, rememberable |
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| Main Entry: | account |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
accountable, anecdotic, cadastral, described, descriptive, epic, graphic, historic, hypomnematic, legendary, narrative, storied, suggestive, traditional, traditionary
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| Main Entry: | culture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
ambosexual, androgynous, anthropoid, antiethnic, civic, congeneric, consanguine, cosmopolitan, deivirile, ecdemic, epicene, ethnic, ethnocentric, ethnological, genealogical, gynaecocoenic, historic, historical, homophylic, human, individual, infra, mortal, national, neanthropic, nonliterate, paleoanthropic, personal, pithecological, polyphyletic, preliterate, primitive, prosopoeic, public, simian, social, sociocultural, sociological, xanthous
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