shatter : Idioms & Phrases
shatter-brained
Shat"ter-brained`, Shat"ter-pat`ed adjective
(Also<
- Shatter-brained
- Shatter-pated
)
Definitions
Disordered or wandering in intellect; hence, heedless; wild. J. Goodman.
Webster 1913
world-shattering
-
adjective satellite sufficiently significant to affect the whole world
earthshaking; world-shaking.
- earthshaking proposals
- the contest was no world-shaking affair
- the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering
