tragic
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3.6
- adjective
- /ˈtrædʒɪk/
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trágico
- The play's tragic ending left the audience in tears as the main character succumbed to despair.
- a tragic hero
- a tragic flaw
- a tragic ending
Joppeth is more of a tragic hero than a hero of faith.
- Joppeth is more of a tragic hero than a hero of faith.
- And it's also hard because it's just such a just a tragic story and a tragic ending.
- The procedure was so common it became known as the Mississippi appendectomy, a tragic chapter in my country's history.
- That's how you bring a character to a tragic but not unhappy ending.
- It's it's kind of it's a camp tragic comedy.
- The Caesar that we usually think of, the Caesar that we know and love, the tragic figure, the dictator who reached too far, the colossus.
- Before it was precisely the tragic discovery of those we had, the land of whom we had occupied.
Examples
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The procedure was so common it became known as the Mississippi appendectomy, a tragic chapter in my country's history.
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This story seems to have reached its tragic conclusion in what appears to be the murder suicide of Mr. Rice and his daughter.
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You are making a tragic mistake here.
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This is most obvious in the most tragic examples.
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Well, there is a tragic aspect to it.
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And it's also hard because it's just such a just a tragic story and a tragic ending.
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My friend and I would like to talk to you about the tragic events of November 15th.
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But it was the events after the crash that has turned this tragic story into something even stranger.
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Events take a tragic turn in August '74...
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Janning, to be sure, is a tragic figure.
Synonyms
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1.0
Bad or unfortunate and likely to make people feel unhappy
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7.0
Causing very great damage or harm
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3.5
Causing very great harm, suffering, or failure
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9.9
Very sad and about death or great loss
Antonyms
Compounds
- Literature
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7.8
A weak part of a main character that causes their ruin in a serious story
How Tragic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tragic comes from old Greek parts tragos 'goat' and -oidē 'song'. One helpful story says early Greek stage shows had actors in goat skins or a goat as a prize, so the 'goat song' became the name for serious plays. That's why tragic (and the word tragedy) now describes a sad, serious story with a doomed hero.