EARTHSHAKING

earthshaking

(adjective) loud enough to shake the very earth

earthshaking, world-shaking, world-shattering

(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

earthshaking (comparative more earthshaking, superlative most earthshaking)

Of global consequence or importance

Very loud

Synonyms

• earthshattering

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

25 December 2024

UNAMBIGUOUS

(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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