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life-and-death adj.
momentous adj.

ADJECTIVE

life-and-death

Synonyms

WEAK

all-important consequential critical crucial determining earth-shattering essential imperative important indispensable life-or-death meaningful of vital importance paramount pivotal serious significant urgent vital vitally important

ADJECTIVE

momentous

Synonyms

STRONGEST

consequential crucial decisive eventful far-reaching fateful historic meaningful memorable notable pivotal significant weighty

WEAK

big chips are down considerable critical earth-shattering epochal grave heavy heavy number material of moment outstanding substantial vital

Antonyms

STRONGEST

inconsequential insignificant meaningless ordinary trivial uneventful unimportant unnoteworthy unremarkable unsubstantial

WEAK

immaterial trifling

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earth-shaking

But we would be dead to the realities of the world if we didn’t ask the question in relation to the earth-shaking miscalculation that followed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Kevin Harris, who grew up in Washington, D.C., and decided to move to Ghana over safety and quality-of-life concerns in the United States, described the moment he became a Ghanaian citizen as "earth-shaking".

From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026

"It was earth-shaking when we found out we should have got a mortgage offer then."

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2025

Singer Caetano Veloso’s ode to the earth-shaking vehicles proclaimed that the only people not following them must already be dead.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

There was the source of the earth-shaking noise.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat

earth-shaking

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