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Definition: Earthshaking |
EarthshakingAdjective1. Loud enough to shake the very earth. 2. 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 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "earthshaking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1916. (references) |
Synonyms: EarthshakingSynonyms: world-shaking (adj), world-shattering (adj). (additional references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
earthshaking music | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "earthshaking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Farsi | مهم (Chief, Considerable, Epochal, Grand, Grave, Great, Head, Important, Main, Material, Momentous, Principal, Serious, Significant, Smacker, Substantial), اساسی (Basal, Basic, Cardinal, Fundametal, Ground, Material, Meaty, Net, Pivotal, Primordial, Substantial, Vital). (various references) | |
German | welterschütternd (earth-shattering, world shaking). (various references) | |
Italian | Terra tremante. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | earthshakingay.(various references) | |
Thai | ที่สำคัญมาก (focal). (various references) | |
Turkish | inançları kökünden sarsan, fikirleri altüst eden. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "earthshaking": earthshakingly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "earthshaking" (pronounced er"thshā'king) |
| 5 | -sh ā' k i ng | handshaking. |
| 4 | -ā' k i ng | bookmaking, breathtaking, dressmaking, filmmaking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, heartbreaking, homemaking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, matchmaking, moneymaking, moviemaking, muckraking, overtaking, painstaking, papermaking, peacemaking, steelmaking, undertaking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | antismoking, aching, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, braking, breaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, gawking, hacking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, mucking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, packing, panicking, parking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-h-h-i-k-n-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: shanghaier. | |
-3 letters: antishark, ingathers, kashering, rehashing, rhatanies, sheathing, shrinkage, streaking, thrashing, threshing. | |
-4 letters: aerating, anergias, angaries, angriest, antisera, arginase, asthenia, astringe, earthing, gahnites, ganister, gantries, gherkins, granitas, granites, hairnets, hearings, hearsing, hearting, hetairas, inearths, ingather, ingrates, insheath, kartings, keratins, khanates, kitharas, rangiest, ratanies, retaking, rethinks, seatrain, shanghai, sharking, shearing, tanagers, tankages, thanages, thankers. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-h-h-i-k-n-r-s-t" | |
+2 letters: earthshakingly. | |
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