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  • adjective Not tragical.

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un- +‎ tragical

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Examples

  • It all depends upon income in a manner comically untragical.

    Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Edmund Gosse 1888

  • Under all roofs of this distracted City, is the nodus of a drama, not untragical, crowding towards solution.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • But it was merely modern, and more particularly French names that, as untragical and unpoetical, could not, for a moment, be tolerated; for the heroes of antiquity are with them Frenchmen in everything but the name; and antiquity was merely a thin veil beneath which the modern French character might be distinctly recognized.

    Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature August Wilhelm Schlegel 1806

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