TRAGIC; TRAGICAL

a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Of or pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy; as, a tragic poem; a tragic play or representation.

2.
a.

Fatal to life; mournful; terrible; calamitous; as, the tragic scenes of the French revolution.

3.
a.

Mournful; expressive of tragedy, the loss of life, or of sorrow. Why look you still so stern and tragical Shak. -- Trag"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Trag"ic*al*ness, n.


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