tragedy
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- noun
- /ˈtrædʒədi/
- Literature
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tragedia
- The story vividly illustrates the tragedy of a hero who loses everything due to his own flaws.
- Greek tragedy
- Shakespearean tragedy
- write tragedies
Well, these new forms of language, epic, poetry, tragedy and comedy.
- Well, these new forms of language, epic, poetry, tragedy and comedy.
- And in the the framework of Greek tragedy, what does this actually mean?
- So if I say that there's a comedy of errors, there's a tragedy of errors.
- This is like the ancient Greek tragedy where the worst thing was to be no one or no thing.
- And if you look at Greek tragedy, it's the definition of that.
Examples
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In all, Maria Rosa Galvez's Amnon is a carefully crafted tragedy that closely follows Aristotelian precepts.
Academic text (1990) -
" That," I said, "is one of the tragedies of my life."
Fiction book (2001) -
You star in your own tragedy.
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And if you look at Greek tragedy, it's the definition of that.
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Are you laughing at my childhood tragedy?
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The passions were central to tragedy, however.
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Nora wipes a tear from her eye as she watches the tragedy play out.
Fiction book (2002) -
lt's a tragedy that unfolds in an unforgiving world.
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Like a classic tragedy, GM's fall involved success and a fatal flaw: arrogance.
Academic text (2011) -
"I'm here to discover the major tragedies of Western life," she declared as she perused the syllabus.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
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A story performed by actors on stage
Antonyms
How Serious
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tragedy originally meant a 'goat-song' in Greek, from the roots tragos ('goat') and oide ('song'), because early tragic plays grew from those rituals. That is why today a tragedy is a serious play or story where the main character suffers or is brought to ruin.