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trag⋅ic
[traj-ik] 
ɪk
–adjective
| 1. | characteristic or suggestive of tragedy: tragic solemnity. |
| 2. | extremely mournful, melancholy, or pathetic: a tragic plight. |
| 3. | dreadful, calamitous, disastrous, or fatal: a tragic event. |
| 4. | of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of tragedy: the tragic drama. |
| 5. | acting in or writing tragedy: a tragic actor; a tragic poet. |
| 6. | the tragic, the element or quality of tragedy in literature, art, drama, etc.: lives that had never known anything but the tragic. |
Also, trag⋅i⋅cal.
Related forms:
trag⋅i⋅cal⋅ly, adverb
trag⋅i⋅cal⋅ness, noun
Synonyms:
2. distressing, pitiful.
2. distressing, pitiful.
Antonyms:
1–3. comic.
1–3. comic.
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| trag·ic (trāj'ĭk) adj.
[Latin tragicus, from Greek tragikos, from tragos, goat.] |
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Tragic
Trag"ic\, Tragical \Trag"ic*al\, a. [L. tragicus, Gr.?: cf. F. tragique.]1. Of or pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy; as, a tragic poem; a tragic play or representation. 2. Fatal to life; mournful; terrible; calamitous; as, the tragic scenes of the French revolution. 3. Mournful; expressive of tragedy, the loss of life, or of sorrow. Why look you still so stern and tragical ? --Shak. -- Trag"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Trag"ic*al*ness, n.Tragic
Trag"ic\, n. 1. A writer of tragedy. [Obs.] 2. A tragedy; a tragic drama. [Obs.]
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Language Translation for : tragic
Spanish:
trágico,
German:
tragisch,
Japanese:
不幸な
tragic
1545, "calamitous, disastrous, fatal," shortened from tragical (1489), modeled on L. tragicus, from Gk. tragikos "of or pertaining to tragedy," lit. "of or pertaining to a goat," and probably referring to a satyr impersonated by a goat singer or satyric actor (see tragedy).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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