tragic

Plural: tragics

Adjective Satellite

• very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction
  • "a tragic face"
  • "a tragic plight"
  • "a tragic accident"

Adjective

• of or relating to or characteristic of tragedy
  • "tragic hero"

Adj

• Causing great sadness or suffering.
• Relating to tragedy in a literary work.
• Having been the victim of a tragedy.
• Cringeworthy; tryhard; unhip; embarrassing; hopeless; indicative of (or having) a chronic lack of self-awareness.

Noun

• The element in a drama that evokes pity and fear, leading to tragedy.
• An obsessive fan, a superfan
• A writer of tragedy.
• A tragedy; a tragic drama.

Examples

• He's pretty tragic these days, hanging out with people half his age.
• Her father's early death was tragic.
• That dress is tragic.
• The TRAGIC element of his Words With Friends game was his inability to find a vowel.

Synonyms

tragical, atrabiliary, atrabilious, deplorable, depressing, distressing, grievous, lachrymable, lamentable, miserable, mournful, pathetic, pathetisad, pitiable, pitiful, pitisome, regrettable, rueful, sad, saddening, sorrowful, tragic, unhappy, upsetting, woebegone, woeful

Related Words

tragical, tragically, tragicomic

Anagrams of tragic