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Meaning of EARTHSHAKING

Pronunciation:  'urth`sheyking

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

 

 

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 Related Terms: 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, loudish, loud-sounding, 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
 

 

 

 

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