adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Being diagnosed with cancer was an earth-shattering experience.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A fortnight after she had made this earth-shattering discovery she was amazed when he stuttered out an invitation to the cinema.
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All her consciousness was centred on that unfamiliar and earth-shattering friction.
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Beware: if your conclusion contains earth-shattering information, your reader may miss it.
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Hardly earth-shattering confessions, I admit.
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The computer world was abuzz with rumors of two potentially earth-shattering computers.
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The documents were not of earth-shattering significance in themselves, but would help business.