TRAGIC


Meaning of TRAGIC in English

— tragically , adv. — tragicalness , n.

/traj"ik/ , adj.

1. characteristic or suggestive of tragedy: tragic solemnity.

2. extremely mournful, melancholy, or pathetic: a tragic plight.

3. dreadful, calamitous, disastrous, or fatal: a tragic event.

4. of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of tragedy: the tragic drama.

5. acting in or writing tragedy: a tragic actor; a tragic poet.

6. the tragic , the element or quality of tragedy in literature, art, drama, etc.: lives that had never known anything but the tragic.

Also, tragical .

[ 1535-45; tragicus tragikós of tragedy, equiv. to trág ( os ) goat + -ikos -IC ]

Syn. 2. distressing, pitiful.

Ant. 1-3. comic.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .