earthshaking
or earth-shak·ing
imperiling, challenging, or affecting basic beliefs, attitudes, relationships, etc.
Origin of earthshaking
1- Also earth-shat·ter·ing, earth·shat·ter·ing [urth-shat-er-ing] /ˈɜrθˌʃæt ər ɪŋ/ .
Other words from earthshaking
- earthshaker, noun
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How to use earthshaking in a sentence
As Wolff argues, "Absent an earth-shaking idea, Facebook will look forward to slowing or declining growth in a tapped-out market."
The world was passing through a reaction destined to lead to the earth-shaking catastrophe of 1914.
The Canadian Dominion | Oscar D. SkeltonWith the impatience of one who has a good earth-shaking shock ready to administer, he watched his wandering relatives disembark.
Ralestone Luck | Andre NortonMartial music and earth-shaking charges moved him for a moment, as they moved others for an hour or a day.
The Long Roll | Mary JohnstonI tried weak joviality: "It can't be anything of earth-shaking gravity."
Question of Comfort | Les Collins
When the answer came, he was once again in action, the guns chugging and rumbling, the earth shaking.
Gladiator | Philip Wylie
British Dictionary definitions for earthshaking
/ (ˈɜːθˌʃeɪkɪŋ) /
informal of enormous importance or consequence; momentous
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