Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
world-shattering
adj 1: 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]