- shattering - seemingly loud enough to break something; violently rattling or clattering; "shattering rain striking the windowpanes"; "the shattering tones of the enormous carillon"; "the shattering peal of artillery"
Antonym: soft (indirect, via loud)
- smashing, shattering - the act of breaking something into small pieces
--1 is a kind of breakage, break, breaking
Derived forms: verb shatter2, verb shatter1
- shatter - break into many pieces; "The wine glass shattered"
--1 is one way to burst, bust
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun shattering1
The glass tubes shatter
- shatter - break into many pieces; "shatter the plate"
--2 is one way to break
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun shattering1
They shatter the glass tubes