What does doorstopper mean?
Doorstopper means A doorstop: a device for halting the motion of a door..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A doorstop: a device for halting the motion of a door..
So Steven Pinker is stretching the genre with his 450-page doorstopper Enlightenment Now: A Manifesto for Science, Reason, Humanism and Progress.
Use doorstopper when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Doorstopper means A doorstop: a device for halting the motion of a door..
Common synonyms include doorstop.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
So Steven Pinker is stretching the genre with his 450-page doorstopper Enlightenment Now: A Manifesto for Science, Reason, Humanism and Progress.
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