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Definition: Tragical |
TragicalAdjective1. Very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction; "a tragic face"; "a tragic plight"; "a tragic accident". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tragical" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Synonym: TragicalSynonym: tragic (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pain | Ruinous, disastrous, calamitous, tragical; desolating, withering; burdensome, onerous, oppressive; cumbrous, cumbersome. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tragical |
| English words defined with "tragical": Supertragical ♦ Tragedious. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tragical": Off with his Head! So much for Buckingham!. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "tragical": Tragedious. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | This is the most tragical thing that has ever happened to me. (Anne of Green Gables; writing credit: Lucy Maud Montgomery; Kevin Sullivan) | |
Lyrics | Loneliness is tragical (Shape Of My Heart; performing artist: Backstreet Boys) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The effect is thrilling and tragical. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | A dire induction am I witness to, And will to France, hoping the consequence Will prove as bitter, black, and tragical. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Tragical" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tragical" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "tragical": tragical actor. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tragical history of dr faustus | 5 |
tragical history of doctor faustus | 5 |
doctor faustus history summary tragical | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tragical"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | tragisch (tragedy, tragic, tragically, tragicly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τραγικόσ (tragic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tragikus (tragic), tragédiával kapcsolatos (tragic), végzetes (catastrophic, fatal, fated, fateful, fey, mortal, ruinous, suicidal, tragic), szomorú végű (tragic), szomorú kimenetelű (tragic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tragico (tragic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | doo-skeealagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | agicaltray de tragedie. (various references) трагический (tragic). (various references) thảm thương (lamentable, piteous, rueful, tragic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tragical": tragically. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-g-i-l-r-t" | |
-2 letters: agaric, argali, atrial, citral, garlic, lariat, latria, racial, rictal, tragic. | |
-3 letters: acari, agria, altar, argal, argil, artal, atria, carat, cigar, craal, glair, graal, grail, laari, ratal, riata, taiga, talar, tiara, tical, tragi, trail, triac, trial. | |
-4 letters: acta, agar, airt, alar, alga, alit, aria, aril, carl, cart, clag, clit, crag, gait, gala, gilt, girl. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-g-i-l-r-t" | |
+1 letter: cartilage. | |
+2 letters: arthralgic, cartilages, lacerating, tragically. | |
+3 letters: altercating, calibrating, categorical, grammatical, pragmatical, strategical, tracklaying. | |
+4 letters: accelerating, agricultural, articulating, astrological, caterwauling, extralogical, interglacial, plagiaristic, reallocating, reescalating, tabernacling, tracklayings, tragicomical. | |
+5 letters: acculturating, archaeologist, calligraphist, carboxylating, cartilaginous, categorically, collaborating, conflagration, dramaturgical, extragalactic, galvanometric, gastronomical, grammatically, intercalating, intergalactic, interglacials, intragalactic, lethargically, logogrammatic, magistratical, matriculating, metallurgical, orgiastically, parasitologic, pragmatically, recalculating, recalibrating, straightlaced, strategically, teratological, topographical, translocating, typographical, ungrammatical. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 72 61 67 69 63 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .-. .- --. .. -.-. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01110010 01100001 01100111 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T r a g i c a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0072 0061 0067 0069 0063 0061 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5484677375696778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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