Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Relating to or characteristic of dramatic tragedy or tragedies: tragic plays; the tragic hero.
- adj. Writing or performing in tragedy: a tragic poet.
- adj. Having the elements of tragedy; involving death, grief, or destruction: a tragic accident.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining or relating to tragedy; of the nature of tragedy: as, a tragic poem; the tragic drama.
- Characteristic of tragedy.
- Connected with or characterized by great calamity, cruelty, or bloodshed; mournful; dreadful; heart-rending.
- Expressive of tragedy, death, or sorrow.
- n. A writer of tragedy; a tragedian.
- n. A tragedy; a tragic, drama.
Wiktionary
- adj. Causing great sadness or suffering.
- adj. Relating to tragedy in a literary work.
- adj. Involved in a tragedy.
- n. obsolete A writer of tragedy.
- n. obsolete A tragedy; a tragic drama.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy.
- adj. Fatal to life; mournful; terrible; calamitous.
- adj. Mournful; expressive of tragedy, the loss of life, or of sorrow.
- n. obsolete A writer of tragedy.
- n. obsolete A tragedy; a tragic drama.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction
- adj. of or relating to or characteristic of tragedy
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek τραγικός (tragikos, "of or relating to tragedy"), from τράγος (tragos, "male goat"), a reference to the goat-satyrs of the theatrical plays of the Dorians. (Wiktionary)
- Latin tragicus, from Greek tragikos, from tragos, goat. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This organization epitomizes the term tragic-comedy for it ignores appalling human rights abuses in Sudan,”
“One of his colleagues cautioned against overreacting to what he called a tragic and unusual accident.”
“Contrary to the almost mechanistic, rationalist view of human nature underpinning the neo-liberal, free-market vision, Brooks notes Taleb's more pessimistic, more conservative view: He subscribes to what he calls the tragic vision of humankind, which 'believes in the existence of inherent limitations and flaws in the way we think and act and requires an acknowledgement of this fact as a basis for any individual and collective action.”
“Senator Obama today said the death of 4,000 of our troops in Iraq represents what he called a tragic marker.”
“Mercury Energy says it regrets what it calls the tragic circumstances surrounding the death and will investigate further.”
“Israel apologized for what it calls tragic deaths.”
“The top U.S. diplomat for East Asia, Kurt Campbell, apologized Friday for what he called a "tragic and inexcusable rape that took place about a week ago.”
“Through their lawyers, the brothers expressed sorrow for what they called a tragic incident.”
“Kohut used the term tragic man, in contrast to Freud’s guilty man, to express the idea that a self that is fragmented or depleted and that reflects unmirrored ambitions and is devoid of ideals is quite sad, and that this tragic state reflects the core problem of those with self disorders.”
Simon & Schuster: Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice
“He also asked the audience to pray for those lost in what he called a tragic accident.”
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