Adjective
- 1. earthshaking, loud (vs. soft)
- usage: loud enough to shake the very earth
- 2. earthshaking, world-shaking, world-shattering, significant (vs. insignificant), important
- usage: sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; "earthshaking proposals"; "the contest was no world-shaking affair"; "the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering"
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