megatragedy

English

Etymology

mega- +‎ tragedy

Noun

megatragedy (plural megatragedies)

1. 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.