Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

climatastrophe

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cli-matas-tro-phe
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A natural catastrophe largely or solely the result of climate chaos.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"His testimony at a public hearing was a harbinger of uglier epithets to come. In 2009 the climatastrophe meme started to unravel. A whistle blower inside the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia (which pioneered climate studies under deservedly famous Professor Hubert Lamb) became so offended by its hidden corruption of climate science that he/she released the infamous Climategate emails."
"This presents yet more compelling evidence that an eemergency WW2-scale program is necessary to have any reasonable chance to escape climatastrophe."
"“We haven't seen temperatures spike like this in a thousand years, since the Cimatastrophe!”"

Etymology

Blend of climate + catastrophe.

Usage

Inflected Forms

climatastrophes (plural)

Questions

What does climatastrophe mean?: A natural catastrophe largely or solely the result of climate chaos.
Where does climatastrophe come from?: Blend of climate + catastrophe.

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