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world-shaking

world-shak·ing
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [wurld shey-king]
    • /wɜrld ˈʃeɪ kɪŋ/
    • /wɜːld ʃeɪk/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [wurld shey-king]
    • /wɜrld ˈʃeɪ kɪŋ/

Definitions of world-shaking word

  • adjective world-shaking of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world: the world-shaking effects of an international clash. 1
  • adjective world-shaking of enormous significance; momentous 0
  • adjective world-shaking of great significance, effect, or influence; momentous 0
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Origin of world-shaking

First appearance:

before 1590
One of the 37% oldest English words
First recorded in 1590-1600

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Parts of speech for World-shaking

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of World-shaking

world-shaking popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 31% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

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