momentously

1. 1.

   in a momentous way

Questions about momentously

What does momentously mean?

momentously means "in a momentous way".

How many syllables are in momentously?

momentously has 4 syllables and divides as mo-men-tou-sly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is momentously a common word?

momentously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.