Read the given passage and answer the four questions that follow:-

The seed of Indian Writing in English was sown during the period of the British rule in India. Now the seed has blossomed into an evergreen tree, with fragrant flowers and ripe fruits. The fruits are being tasted not only by the native people, but they are also being 'chewed and digested' by the foreigners. It happened only after constant care, pruning and feeding.

Indian English Literature is an honest enterprise to demonstrate the ever rare gems of Indian Writing in English. From being a singular and exceptional, rather gradual native flare-up of geniuses, Indian Writing has turned out to be a new form of Indian culture and voice in which India converses regularly. Indian writers - poets, novelists, essayists, and dramatists have been making momentous and considerable contributions to world literature since the Pre - Independence era. The past few years have witnessed a gigantic prospering and thriving of Indian English Writing in the global market.

Indian English Literature has attained an independent status in the realm of world literature. Wide ranges of themes are dealt with by Indian writing in English. While this literature continues to reflect Indian culture, tradition, social values and even Indian history through the depiction of life in India and Indians living elsewhere, recent Indian English fiction has been trying to give expression to the Indian experience of modern predicaments.

Choose the word that is opposite in meaning to the underlined word:-

Indian writers - poets, novelists, essayists, and dramatists have been making momentous and considerable contributions to world literature.

insignificant

The correct answer is Option (2) → insignificant

• Momentous (Adjective) means (of a decision, event, or change) of great importance or significance, especially in its bearing on future events.

• Insignificant (Adjective) means too small or unimportant to be worth consideration; lacking in importance. This is the direct antonym.

Other Options: 

• Consequential is a synonym for momentous (having significant consequences).

• Pivotal is a synonym for momentous (of crucial importance).

• Mediocre means of only average quality; not very good.