tragic
characteristic or suggestive of tragedy: tragic solemnity.
extremely mournful, melancholy, or pathetic: a tragic plight.
dreadful, calamitous, disastrous, or fatal: a tragic event.
of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of tragedy: the tragic drama.
acting in or writing tragedy: a tragic actor; a tragic poet.
the tragic, the element or quality of tragedy in literature, art, drama, etc.: lives that had never known anything but the tragic.
Origin of tragic
1- Sometimes trag·i·cal (for defs. 1-3) .
Other words for tragic
2 | distressing, pitiful |
Opposites for tragic
Other words from tragic
- trag·i·cal·ly, adverb
- trag·i·cal·ness, noun
- hy·per·trag·ic, adjective
- hy·per·trag·i·cal, adjective
- hy·per·trag·i·cal·ly, adverb
- non·trag·ic, adjective
- non·trag·i·cal, adjective
- non·trag·i·cal·ly, adverb
- non·trag·i·cal·ness, noun
- quasi-tragic, adjective
- qua·si-trag·i·cal·ly, adverb
- su·per·trag·ic, adjective
- su·per·trag·i·cal·ly, adverb
- un·trag·ic, adjective
- un·trag·i·cal, adjective
- un·trag·i·cal·ly, adverb
- un·trag·i·cal·ness, noun
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How to use tragic in a sentence
Under all roofs of this distracted City is the nodus of a Drama, not untragical, crowding toward solution.
It all depends upon income in a manner comically untragical.
Some Diversions of a Man of Letters | Edmund William GosseUnder all roofs of this distracted City, is the nodus of a drama, not untragical, crowding towards solution.
The French Revolution | Thomas Carlyle
British Dictionary definitions for tragic
less commonly tragical (ˈtrædʒɪkəl)
/ (ˈtrædʒɪk) /
of, relating to, or characteristic of tragedy
mournful or pitiable: a tragic face
Derived forms of tragic
- tragically, adverb
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