Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Earth-shattering; world-shaking: Describing an event, action, or achievement of such immense magnitude, intensity, or significance that it seems to shake heaven and earth. It implies something extraordinarily shocking, monumental, or awe-inspiring.
   • Thundering; resounding: Describing a sound, fame, or reputation that is overwhelmingly loud, powerful, and widespread.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Đó là một sự kiện kinh thiên động địa trong lịch sử. (That was an earth-shattering event in history.)
  • Tiếng hô kinh thiên động địa của vị tướng. (The general's thundering battle cry.)
  • Phát minh này có ý nghĩa kinh thiên động địa. (This invention is of world-shaking significance.)

Advanced Usage

• The phrase is often used in formal, literary, or journalistic contexts to add dramatic emphasis. It is a fixed idiom, and its components ("kinh thiên" – startle heaven; "động địa" – shake earth) are not used separately in modern Vietnamese with this meaning.

Variants and Related Words

• Long trời lở đất (idiom): A near-synonymous idiom also meaning "earth-shattering" or "cataclysmic."
• Vang dội (adj): Resonant, resounding, echoing (often for fame or sound, but less intense than "kinh thiên động địa").

Synonyms

• Earth-shattering
• World-shaking
• Monumental
• Cataclysmic
• Resounding

Related Idioms

• Chấn động địa cầu: To shake the globe (often used for major news or scientific discoveries).
• Làm nên chuyện động trời: To cause a sky-shaking affair (to do something shockingly audacious or remarkable).