Tragic

Definition: Tragic

Tragic

Adjective

1. Very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction; "a tragic face"; "a tragic plight"; "a tragic accident".

2. (drama) of or relating to or characteristic of tragedy; "tragic hero".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tragic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Tragic \Trag"ic\, noun. 1. A writer of tragedy. [Obsolete]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Tragic

The Drama

Adjective: dramatic; theatric, theatrical; scenic, histrionic, comic, tragic, buskined, farcical, tragicomic, melodramatic, operatic; stagy.

Crosswords: Tragic

Romanian (sad, tragic, tragically, tragicalness).

Outside things may be tragic, but in here we feel its magic. (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce)

There's nothing tragic about being fifty. (Sunset Blvd.; writing credit: Charles Brackett)

How deliciously tragic. (Enter the Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

He died in a tragic gardening accident Authorities said it's best to leave it unsolved. (This Is Spinal Tap; writing credit: Christopher Guest; Michael McKean)

Yeah, as if life isn't tragic enough. (Scream 3; writing credit: Ehren Kruger)

More tragic the better the truth is (Unsent; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

I feel an tragic like an Marlon Brando (China Girl; performing artist: David Bowie)

It's magic, it's tragic, it's a loss, it's a win (Epic; performing artist: Faith No More)

Every little thing you do is tragic. (Disease; performing artist: Matchbox 20)

Even though my life before was tragic (Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic; performing artist: The Police)

The Tragic Diary of Zero the Fool (1969)

Tragic Magic (1962)

The Tragic Circle (1915)

A Tragic Experiment (1912)

Tragic Love (1909)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Stealing Lives: The Globalization of Baseball and the Tragic Story of Alexis Quiroz (reference)

• At the Altar of Speed: The Fast Life and Tragic Death of Dale Earnhardt (reference)

• The Many Faces of Evil: Reflections on the Sinful, the Tragic, the Demonic, and the Ambiguous (reference)

• Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes, Slaves of Passion. With Appendices on Bradley's Interpretation of Shakespearean Tragedy. (reference)

• Swiss banks, how safe are they? : Strange speculative diversions of Switzerland's presumably astute world bankers : the tragic dilemma of the Swiss bankers (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Tragic Fantasy: Tiger of Wanchai (reference)

• Tragic Hero (reference)

• Great TV News Stories: The Turbulent End to a Tragic War - America's Final Hours in Vietnam (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4; Haydn-Variations; Tragic Overture (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Mrs. Siddons in the character of the Tragic Muse / engraven with permission by Anthony Cardon, from the celebrated picture painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, now in the possession of William Smith Esqr. M.P. Credit: Library of Congress.

The submarines; a tragic possibility of the political deep. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1895)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Their breath, beneath that veil, is like some indescribable, tragic respiration of death itself.

The reporter called it a tragic death.

To make an act of tragic violence.

All I know of him is tragic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

This tragic trend must be reversed. (references)

These consequences are tragic to individuals and families and place additional burdens on social service agencies, law enforcement, and the courts. (references)

Economic History

Venezuela

Vargas Reconstruction - The tragic flooding of the Venezuelan coast destroyed or severely damaged water pipeline systems, roads and other infrastructure. (references)

China

Relations between the U.S. and China were severely strained by the tragic accidental bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade in May 1999. By the end of 1999, relations began to gradually improve. (references)

Djibouti

The Djiboutian Government has generally been supportive of U.S. and Western interests, as was demonstrated during the Gulf crisis of 1990-91. After the tragic events of September 11, 2001, Djibouti quickly supported international efforts to fight terrorism. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "tragic": tragic actor ♦ tragic comic ♦ tragic flaw ♦ tragic hero. Additional references.

Beginning with "tragic": tragic-comedy, tragic-comic.

Ending with "tragic": extra-tragic, mock-tragic, now-tragic.

Albanian

tragjik, i tmerrshëm (appalling, awesome, awful, Creese, damnable, darn, deadly, deuced, dire, direful, eldritch, enormous, frightful, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, macabre, parlous, perishing, redoubtable, redoubted, sad, scary, terrible, terrific, towering, tremendous). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاجع (afflictive, agonizing, calamitous, catastrophic, distressing, grievous, painful), ‏محزن (depressing, dismal, distressing, doleful, dolorous, gloomy, grievous, mournful, pathetic, rueful, sad, saddening, sorrowful, woeful), ‏مأساوي, ‏تراجيدي. (various references)

Bulgarian 

трагически (thespian), трагичен. (various references)

Chinese 

慘 (badly, cruel, inhuman, miserable, seriously, wretched), 悲慘 (miserable), 悲剧 (Tragedies, tragedy). (various references)

Czech

tragický (catastrophic, coterminous). (various references)

Dutch

tragisch (tragedy). (various references)

Esperanto

tragika. (various references)

Farsi 

فجیع (Calamitous, Disastrous), محزون (Despondent, Minor, Pensive, Plaintive, Sad, Somber), غم انگیز (Burdensome, Lugubrious, Somber), حزن انگیز (Lugubrious, Sepulchral). (various references)

Finnish

traaginen. (various references)

French

tragique. (various references)

Frisian

tragysk. (various references)

German

tragisch (tragedy, tragical, tragically, tragicly). (various references)

Greek 

τραγικόσ (tragical). (various references)

Hebrew 

טר�'י. (various references)

Hungarian

tragikus (tragical). (various references)

Indonesian

tragis, menyedihkan (forlorn, grievous, pitiable, sadden). (various references)

Italian

tragico (tragical). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

無惨 (atrocious, cruel, miserable, pitiful), 敢え無い (tragically). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

トラジック , ひそう (cortex, pathetic, sad, superficial, touching), ひ�'きてき, さ�"た�" (admiration, extollment, horrible, pitiful, praise, repeatedly crying, wretched), あえない (tragically), むざ�" (atrocious, atrocity, cold-bloodedness, cruel, cruelty, miserable, pitiful). (various references)

Korean 

비극 (Tragedies, tragedy). (various references)

Papiamen

trágiko. (various references)

Pig Latin

agictray

Polish

tragiczny. (various references)

Portuguese

trágico (tragedy). (various references)

Romanian

tragic (sad, tragically, tragicalness). (various references)

Russian 

трагический (tragical). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tragičan. (various references)

Spanish

trágico (heavy, tragedian). (various references)

Swedish

tragisk. (various references)

Turkish

trajik, feci (disastrous, ghastly, grievous), acikli (affecting, dismal, dreary, gaunt, miserable, moving, sad, touching, tragedy), acı (ache, acidulous, acrid, affliction, anguish, biting, bitter, brackish, cutting, distress, gnawing, grief, grievous, harsh, heartbreak, hot, hurt, incisive, lamentable, misery, nippy, pain, painful, pang, peppery, poignant, pungent, sad, sardonic, scathing, severe, shrill, sorrow, sorrowful, splitting, sting, suffering, trenchant, vitriolic, worry). (various references)

Turkmen 

tragiki (r). (various references)

Ukrainian

трагічний, жахливий (abominable, abysmal, almighty, appalling, atrocious, awesome, awful, blinking, blood-curdling, blue, chronic, damnable, damned, deadly, desperate, deuced, devilish, dire, direful, dreadful, eerie, eery, eldritch, enormous, fearful, fearsome, ferocious, flagrant, frightening, frightful, grievous, gruesome, horrible, horrific, iniquitous, macabre, monstrous, plaguy, scarey, scary, towering, tremendous, ungodly, wretched), прикрий (afflictive, aggravating, deplorable, lamentable, maddening, plaguy, provoking, regrettable, vexatious). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thảm thương (lamentable, piteous, rueful, tragical). (various references)

tragikos. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tragic": tragical, tragically, tragicomedies, tragicomedy, tragicomic, tragicomical, tragics. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tragic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Draghici, tarnic, terraggi, traagic, Trabi, trafic, trafice, trage, tragi, traig, traik, Trewick, Tribick, trific, tritici, Troglio. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cigar, tragi, triac.

-2 letters: airt, cart, crag, gait, girt, grat, grit, ragi, trig.

-3 letters: act, air, ait, arc, art, car, cat, cig, gar, gat, git, rag, rat, ria, rig, tag, tar, tic.

-4 letters: ag, ai, ar, at, it, ta, ti.

+1 letter: argotic, carting, cigaret, crating, gastric, tracing, tragics.

+2 letters: agrestic, argentic, catering, charting, cigarets, crafting, creating, curating, ergastic, granitic, orgastic, reacting, scarting, tracings, tracking, tragical, trancing.

+3 letters: accreting, articling, cantering, capturing, carpeting, cartilage, cartoning, cartridge, categoric, cavorting, centigram, cigarette, ciguatera, craggiest, cratering, cremating, curtilage, digastric, factoring, furcating, geriatric, gracility, graphitic, graticule, kingcraft, lethargic, orgiastic, outracing, pictogram, pragmatic, preacting, racketing, recanting, recasting, recrating, redacting, retacking, retracing, starching, strategic, terracing, trachling, trackings, traducing, uncrating.

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