Megadisaster
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Megadisaster is a noun meaning An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of exceptional magnitude, causing unusually severe or unprecedented damage.
Meaning
An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of exceptional magnitude, causing unusually severe or unprecedented damage.
More Meanings
- An unforeseen event of any kind with exceptionally unpleasant, distressing, or unfortunate results.
Example Sentences
After the initial shock of discovering my scheduling megadisaster, I forced myself to take a deep breath.
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), […]
Word Forms
- megadisasters
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include catastrophe, supercatastrophe, megastorm, superquake, superstorm, super-quake.
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