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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tragic \Trag"ic\, Tragical \Trag"ic*al\, adjective [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}, adverb -- {Trag"ic*al*ness}, noun
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tragic \Trag"ic\, noun
1. A writer of tragedy. [Obs.]
2. A tragedy; a tragic drama. [Obs.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tragic
adjective
1: very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction; "a tragic face"; "a tragic plight"; "a tragic accident" [syn: {tragical}]
2: of or relating to or characteristic of tragedy; "tragic hero"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "tragic": appalling, atrocious, awful, baneful, beastly, black, buskined, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, cheerless, cothurned, crushing, deplorable, depressing, destructive, dire, disastrous, dismal, distressing, disturbing, dolorous, dreadful, fatal, forlorn, funereal, grievous, grim, hapless, heavy, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicious, lachrymose, lamentable, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, morose, mournful, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, rotten, ruinous, sad, shocking, star-crossed, terrible, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, unspeakable, upsetting, wreckful, wretched
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