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Definition of Earthshaking
1. Adjective. Loud enough to shake the very earth.
2. Adjective. Sufficiently significant to affect the whole world. "The conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering"
Definition of Earthshaking
1. Adjective. Of global consequence or importance ¹
2. Adjective. Very loud ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Earthshaking
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Earthshaking
Literary usage of Earthshaking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1907)
"were formed, and repeatedly disturbed by earthshaking Poseidon, ... There earthshaking
Poseidon stopped his horses, loosing them from the chariot and cast ..."
2. El Salvador at War: An Oral History of Conflict from the 1979 Insurrection edited by Max G. Manwaring, Court Prisk (1995)
"No great, earthshaking, long-term ramifications, but the question was, "What did
I find when I got here?" I got here at the beginning of a three- or ..."
3. Green Light!: Men of the 81st Troop Carrier Squadron Tell Their Story by Martin Wolfe (1989)
"We knew about D-Day three days before Hitler did; and to be made recipients of
such earthshaking news made the enlisted men in the crews feel even more ..."
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