WordNet
world-shattering
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" [syn: earthshaking, world-shaking]
Usage examples of "world-shattering".
Marian said as a stunning silence fell leaving their ears ringing with the ceasing of the world-shattering noise.
Everyone knew, now, that there was a secret and that it had world-shattering implications, but the secret had held.
But the same forces which would tear the Moon to bits would shake up the Earth, giving rise to volcanic action, world-shattering earthquakes, monstrous tidal waves.
The window glass was long gone, consumed by the world-shattering flash and concussion when Washington, D.