Tragic

Adjective

 * 1) Causing great sadness or suffering.
 * 2) Relating to tragedy in a literary work.

Related terms

 * tragicomic
 * tragical
 * tragically

Adverbs for Tragic
overwhelmingly;  calamitously;   bitterly; cruelly; incredibly; unexpectedly; dismally; appallingly; shockingly; devastatingly; unmitigatedly; hopelessly; unrelievedly; utterly; splendidly; superbly; highly; profoundly; consummately; incalculably; immeasurably.

Thesaurus
appalling, atrocious, awful, baneful, beastly, black, buskined, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, cheerless, cothurned, crushing, deplorable, depressing, destructive, dire, disastrous, dismal, distressing, disturbing, dolorous, dreadful, fatal, forlorn, funereal, grievous, grim, hapless, heavy, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicious, lachrymose, lamentable, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, morose, mournful, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, rotten, ruinous, sad, shocking, star-crossed, terrible, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, unspeakable, upsetting, wreckful, wretched

Etymology
From τραγικός (tragikos), “related to male goat, related to tragedy”,  from τράγος (tragos) “male goat”, a reference to the goat-satyrs of the theatrical plays of the Dorians.

Pronunciation

 * , {{SAMPA|/"tr{dZIk/}}

Translations

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 * Russian: трагический
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 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * German:


 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 悲劇の
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: трагический
 * Spanish: