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earth-shattering
adjective as in life-and-death
Example Sentences
These concepts aren’t necessarily earth-shattering, but they are profound.
It’s a fact that — barring some earth-shattering upheaval — all but spells victory for Friedman in a district where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by more than 3 to 1.
“It’s not earth-shattering, considering his wealth, it’s a relatively small amount of money,” Germain said.
A ruling that recognized a large swath of Oklahoma as tribal land would have “earth-shattering” consequences, she said in 2018.
It just makes proportional cause-and-effect sense to us to assume that, “Oh, a massive earth-shattering pandemic broke out, that couldn’t have been the result of a bunch of small random minor tragedies all adding up to this big one, instead the government must have engineered it on purpose.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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