megatragedy
English
Etymology
mega- + tragedy
Noun
megatragedy (plural megatragedies)
- A huge tragedy.
- 1994, George F. McLean, Tradition, Harmony, and Transcendence, page 87:
- However, there can be difficulties, indeed megatragedies, when an ethic is made into metaphysics and must assume the burden of answering the foundational questions of being and meaning.
- 2005, Hugh Cook, To Find and Wake the Dreamer, page 533:
- Yeah, I know, it's a megatragedy, but they happen once a week.
- 2015, Melanija Vanaga, Suddenly, a Criminal: Sixteen Years in Siberia, page 305:
- The ravages of war and the nation's megatragedy had not touched the Platupes.