megadisaster
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of exceptional magnitude, causing unusually severe or unprecedented damage.
noun
An unforeseen event of any kind with exceptionally unpleasant, distressing, or unfortunate results.
Example Sentences
- "This chapter uses case studies along with a new data set focused on Kobe's nine wards after the city's 1995 megadisaster, the earthquake known in Japanese as the Hanshin Awaji Daishinsai (the Great Hanshin—Awaji Earthquake), […]"
- "After the initial shock of discovering my scheduling megadisaster, I forced myself to take a deep breath."