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EARTHSHAKING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does earthshaking mean?
• EARTHSHAKING (adjective)
The adjective EARTHSHAKING has 2 senses:
1. loud enough to shake the very earth
2. sufficiently significant to affect the whole world
Familiarity information: EARTHSHAKING used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Loud enough to shake the very earth
Similar:
loud (characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Sufficiently significant to affect the whole world
Synonyms:
earthshaking; world-shaking; world-shattering
Context example:
the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering
Similar:
important; significant (important in effect or meaning)
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