Earth-shaking

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  earth-shaking \earth-shaking\ adj.
     sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; as,
     earth-shaking proposals; an earth-shaking event.
  
     Syn: world-shaking, world-shattering(predicate), world
          shattering(predicate).


          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  earthshaking
       adj 1: loud enough to shake the very earth
       2: sufficiently significant to affect the whole world;
          "earthshaking proposals"; "the contest was no
          world-shaking affair"; "the conversation...could hardly be
          called world-shattering" [syn: {world-shaking}, {world-shattering}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  47 Moby Thesaurus words for "earthshaking":
     big, big-league, big-name, big-time, bigwig, bigwigged, booming,
     consequential, considerable, deafening, double-barreled,
     ear-piercing, ear-rending, ear-splitting, forte, fortissimo, full,
     grand, great, heavyweight, high-powered, important, loud,
     loud-sounding, loudish, major, material, momentous, name, pealing,
     piercing, plangent, resounding, ringing, self-important,
     significant, sonorous, stentoraphonic, stentorian, stentorious,
     substantial, superior, thunderous, tonitruant, tonitruous,
     window-rattling, world-shaking