1.
A ~ event or situation is extremely sad, usually because it involves death or suffering.
It was just a ~ accident...
The circumstances are ~ but we have to act within the law.
ADJ
~ally
Tragically, she never saw the completed building because she died before it was finished...
ADV: ADV with cl, ADV with v, ADV adj/adv
2.
Tragic is used to refer to tragedy as a type of literature.
...Michael Henchard, the ~ hero of ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’.
ADJ: ADJ n