adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a comedy/tragic drama (= about funny/very sad events )
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Martin Clunes is to star in a new comedy drama.
a comic/tragic character (= a funny or sad one )
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Homer Simpson is a great comic character.
a sad/tragic fate
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The play is about the tragic fate of two lovers.
a tragic event (= very sad )
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Let’s not talk about the tragic events of the past.
a tragic incident (= one that involves someone’s death )
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Andrew’s father was lost at sea in this tragic incident.
tragic circumstances (= extremely sad and unfortunate )
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Both parents had died in tragic circumstances.
tragic consequences (= very sad, usually involving death )
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Someone dropped a burning cigarette, with tragic consequences.
tragic death
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Her family are trying to come to terms with Anna's tragic death.
tragic/cruel/bitter etc irony
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The tragic irony is that the drug was supposed to save lives.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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The result is inevitable, but this time much more tragic .
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Surely nothing in the world could be more tragic than that?
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An even more tragic fate befell many who, amid the crazed stampede, were able to get out of the fort.
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It was the most tragic thing I've ever seen.
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In the case of February 2001, it was one of the most tragic .
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Of all the aristocratic victims, perhaps the executions of three women were the most tragic .
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It was so tragic that the girl should be going through all this by herself.
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His effort to be kindly about it and to show understanding are the things that seem so tragic .
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Columbine is rarely seen in so tragic a role.
very
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Female speaker It's very tragic but he would have done it for anybody.
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It would be very tragic if her economic circumstances ever pulled her down.
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It's a very tragic accident.
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I thought that was very tragic .
■ NOUN
accident
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Was this the moment to ask about Emily's brother, Tom, and the tragic accident ?
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The jury saw this case exactly as it is: It was a tragic accident , not a murder.
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Coroner David Gibbons said he was satisfied that Mr Pollards death was was a tragic accident .
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I have no reason to believe at this time that this was anything more than a terribly tragic accident .
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It's a very tragic accident .
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If that is acceptable, why not create a clone of a child who was lost in a tragic accident ?
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The affair had been regarded as a tragic accident , and Fedorov severely censured for negligence.
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I understand they are quite convinced it is a tragic accident .
case
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They were to figure prominently among the more tragic case histories.
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Still, the most powerful of all defenses, the one that in the end resolved this tragic case , was forgiveness.
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Specific screening campaigns, however, should be based on a logical, not purely emotional, response to tragic cases .
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The bereaved are normally anxious for a speedy conclusion in these tragic cases .
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And yet how many tragic cases of hopelessness in families and amongst children are there which never reach our newspapers?
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Mr Crossland's lawyer told the court that it was a tragic case of a young idealist who was also naive.
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I know of no set of criteria that could be drawn up to include such a tragic case .
circumstances
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But the question is not pursued with the same tenacity and intensity as when a child dies in tragic circumstances .
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Those first glimmerings occurred in tragic circumstances .
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It was therefore bitterly disappointing when McDougall, aged only fifty, died in tragic circumstances in November 1961.
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Two fatal accidents in tragic circumstances were reported - to's husband and to's new daughter-in-law.
consequence
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His parents, from Gloucestershire, have joined the county's pre-Christmas campaign to highlight the tragic consequences of drinking and driving.
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The thesis is to show the tragic consequences of parents who are oppressive and inflexible in their relationship with their children.
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Yesterday's train crash near Selby, North Yorkshire, was clearly a tragic consequence of chance and deadly events.
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As a result, what we see is consistently open to interpretation, often with profound and tragic consequences .
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But it had a tragic consequence .
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This trend has already had plenty of tragic consequences .
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He says that the case for re-starting Newent's night time ambulance service has been proved, albeit with tragic consequences .
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And I saw the tragic consequences to other flights and individuals when one element or another of that important synergy broke down.
death
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Today, the Mirror looks back to the first tragic deaths in one of the world's longest and more bitter conflicts.
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The news of his tragic death stunned everyone.
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Since his tragic death my daughter has carried on his good work.
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Let him know that something good has come out of his tragic death .
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It concerns the tragic death on 5 February of six-year-old Carley Reavill who died in hospital of meningitis.
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Police believe the tragic death of 21 year old Lee Russell may be linked to drug abuse.
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In 1920, this transport had a tragic end .
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It was not uncommon to hear stories of the tragic end of those upon whom such a curse came.
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David Lawrence, whose first overseas Test came to a tragic end when he broke his kneecap while bowling.
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Affectionately, the documentary gives due to what gay visibility there was, even if gay characters met tragic ends .
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Read in studio Eighty years ago Captain Scott's expedition to the south pole came to its tragic end .
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In 1875 Edith Arendrup's marriage came to a tragic end .
event
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Many years later, but before the tracks were removed, a tragic event happened on the line.
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The building is part of the tragic event .
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But one that we have created by attributing a secret and higher purpose to a tragic event .
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Suicides in hospital patients are tragic events , causing distress to staff and other patients.
figure
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I drafted Howard's final response to the inevitable correspondence that ensured: Randolph was in my view a tragic figure .
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A truly tragic figure , Johnson had overreached himself.
hero
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Party chairman Chris Patten, the tragic hero of the hour, arrived shortly after 11.00 for a lengthy post-mortem.
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Sentimental comedy possesses several characteristics that are incompatible with the classic concept of tragedy and the tragic hero .
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But Laker, like all tragic heroes , had his fatal flaw, hubris.
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In most cases the pesme sing of tragic heroes who met violent deaths, martyrs to the national cause.
history
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The needles splinter the wind into dirges and laments that tell of the long and tragic history of the trees.
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All the objects around her appeared not to care about her tragic history .
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He comes from a very distinguished family, of course, with a tragic history .
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Oxford has a tragic history of student parties.
irony
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It was a Hardyesque situation, and one which added an element of tragic irony to my sorrow.
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With a tragic irony she very nearly succeeded.
loss
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His tragic loss was shared with his wife Sally and daughter Katie by everyone who knew him.
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It would be a tragic loss to theatre if such an important organisation were to go to the wall.
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Mr. Forth I join the hon. Gentleman in expressing our sorrow at that tragic loss .
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The tragic loss of Knowles was a sorry enough blow to suffer.
myth
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Hence the capacity of music to engender myth , especially the tragic myth that symbolizes Dionysiac wisdom.
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And it is in terms of just such a co-existence of opposites that tragic myth arises.
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The content of tragic myth is, in the first instance, a pleasurable epic glorification of the hero.
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The Dionysiac capacity of a nation is revealed equally by its music and its tragic myth .
result
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Frustrated by his lack of social acceptance he retreats into a world of fantasy and self-delusion ... with tragic results .
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Imagine our horror at the thought that we might now be held legally responsible for the tragic results of an inadequate diet.
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Thankfully, they did not lead to the same tragic results .
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Otherwise, negative views and bad practice can be reinforced - with tragic results .
situation
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But in her tragic situation she clearly resented my being young and alive while her daughter was young and dead.
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Unfortunately, the first impulse of the parents caught in this tragic situation is to sue their doctors.
story
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Interspersed between tragic stories are a few songs supplying pointed but comic relief.
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But the tragic story does not end there.
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He carries on with his illogical druggy spew, obviously telling a tragic story by the look on his face.
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There she hesitatingly narrated her tragic story .
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It is a cruel, tragic story .
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The tragic stories - the quiet or violent deaths of the unrecorded poor - were rarely told.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be a sad/tragic/devastating etc commentary on sth
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The experience of some Sunday morning services in competition with golf is a sad commentary on the bending of principle to person.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Both sisters died in a tragic car accident.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But here Golding offers the extremest instance of how it might be tragic too.
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Her face was often thoughtful, and there was sometimes a tragic note in her voice.
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In a tragic twist of irony, Goldberg was taken seriously.
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Surely nothing in the world could be more tragic than that?
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They were to figure prominently among the more tragic case histories.
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This trend has already had plenty of tragic consequences.
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To Callahan, application of industrial methods to the schools had tragic consequences.