The Collaborative International Dictionary
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).
Usage examples of "earth-shaking".
Whitney J-57 turbojets capable of generating more than 100,000 pounds of earth-shaking thrust.
Battle, murder, and sudden death of all kinds and varieties notwithstanding, the most hectic moments of the most earth-shaking cataclysms in which he had been involved paled their ineffectual fires beside the eye-shrivelling dazzle of that second.
Towering, bull-headed, bewinged, and horned, the horde of balor rushed into the great chamber in a vast, earth-shaking stampede.
This was something too earth-shaking to handle with kid gloves, and Jaunte was anxious to make his name immortal.
This was something too earth-shaking to handle with kid gloves, and anyway Jaunte was anxious to make his name immortal.