earthshaking
Definition
- Adjective:
- Of world-shaking importance: Having consequences or significance so great that they affect the entire world; momentous on a global scale.
- Extremely loud: Producing a sound or vibration so powerful it seems capable of shaking the ground.
Usage
- As an adjective describing importance: Used to describe events, discoveries, or decisions of profound, transformative, and global significance.
- As an adjective describing sound or force: Used to describe a noise or impact of immense, ground-shaking power. This usage is often hyperbolic.
Examples
- Describing importance:
- The scientist's earthshaking discovery about dark energy changed our understanding of the universe.
- The treaty was an earthshaking agreement that ended decades of conflict.
- Describing sound/force (often hyperbolic):
- The earthshaking roar of the volcano could be heard for miles.
- The bass from the concert speakers was absolutely earthshaking.
Advanced Usage
- Figurative Use: Often used figuratively to emphasize extreme importance or impact within a specific field or community, not literally the entire planet.
- Her earthshaking performance in the finals earned her a gold medal.
- Journalistic/Hyperbolic Language: Frequently found in headlines or dramatic writing to capture attention.
- The company announced earthshaking changes to its corporate structure.
Variants and Related Words
- World-shaking (adj): Synonymous with the "important" sense; having worldwide impact.
- World-shattering (adj): Synonymous with the "important" sense, often implying a disruptive or revolutionary impact.
- Groundbreaking (adj): Innovatively important, often the first of its kind. (Less focused on global scale than "earthshaking").
- Epoch-making (adj): Significant enough to define or begin a new historical period.
Synonyms
- Momentous: Of great importance or significance.
- Seismic: Relating to earthquakes or, figuratively, to a great upheaval or change.
- Monumental: Great in importance, extent, or size.
- Thunderous: Extremely loud (for the "sound" sense).
Antonyms
- Insignificant: Too small or unimportant to be worth consideration.
- Trivial: Of little value or importance.
- Quiet: Making little or no noise.
- Minor: Lesser in importance, size, or degree.
Idioms and Phrases
- An earthshaking event: A standard phrase to denote a happening of supreme importance.
- The fall of the Berlin Wall was an earthshaking event in modern history.
- Earthshaking news: Information that is profoundly surprising and consequential.
- They received earthshaking news about the merger.
Adjective
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sufficiently significant to affect the whole world
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earthshaking proposals
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the contest was no world-shaking affair
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the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering
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loud enough to shake the very earth
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