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Earthshaking

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Causing the earth to vibrate; very loud.
  2. 2
    Of global consequence or importance.
Adjective
  1. 1
    loud enough to shake the very earth wordnet
  2. 2
    sufficiently significant to affect the whole world wordnet

Etymology

From earth + shaking as a calque of Ancient Greek ἐννοσίγαιος (ennosígaios), ἐνοσίχθων (enosíkhthōn).

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