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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. loud enough to shake the very earth;

2. sufficiently significant to affect the whole world;
- Example: "earthshaking proposals"
- Example: "the contest was no world-shaking affair"
- Example: "the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering"
[syn: earthshaking, world-shaking, world-shattering]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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: earthshaking, world-shaking, world-
       shattering]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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