megatragedy

plural megatragedies

1. A huge tragedy.

   Yeah, I know, it's a megatragedy, but they happen once a week.

   2005, Hugh Cook, To Find and Wake the Dreamer, page 533

   2 more examples

   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.

   1994, George F. McLean, Tradition, Harmony, and Transcendence, page 87

   The ravages of war and the nation's megatragedy had not touched the Platupes.

   2015, Melanija Vanaga, Suddenly, a Criminal: Sixteen Years in Siberia, page 305