tragic ending
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4.2
- noun
- /ˈtrædʒɪk ˈɛndɪŋ/
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- I always said people exaggerated her legacy because of the tragic ending.
- a tragic ending story
And it's also hard because it's just such a just a tragic story and a tragic ending.
- And it's also hard because it's just such a just a tragic story and a tragic ending.
- You've got drama and you've got a drama that has a a happy ending and drama that has a tragic ending.
Examples
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To add to those three problems is the fact that the tragic ending of the young person's life was more than likely preventable.
Blog text (29) -
However, this is an unsettling novel with a tragic ending.
Academic text (2012) -
But only the ones with the tragic ending.
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A tragic ending for the two heroes still aboard.
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It's a tragic ending to her life, but she's with us forever.
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I had a book of Anderson's Fairy Tales, all of which seemed to have rather tragic endings.
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Due to the tragic ending of Cobain's career, the photos included in the e-book have been sitting in a box in Pavitt's attic for years.
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This tragic ending to an influential career is doubly bitter, considering that in her 1942 autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road, Hurston vividly described her lifelong independence of thought and action.
Academic text (2011) -
The tragic ending is a salutary reminder that Shand is not just a practitioner of literary tricks or postmodern devices that shock or titillate the jaded or trendy critic.
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Many classic novels feature a tragic ending that leaves readers in tears.
Synonyms
A final part that makes you feel deep sadness or regret
Antonyms
How Sad
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'tragic' (producing great sadness or disaster) modifies 'ending' (the final part), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer an ending that causes sadness or catastrophe. This adjective + noun pattern is regular and common across languages, making the phrase immediately understandable from its parts.
Etymology
Tragic ending comes from old stage plays called tragedies, where the final part often showed death or great loss. So, the words tragic and ending together now mean an end that brings 'great sadness or disaster'.