- very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction; "a tragic face"; "a tragic plight"; "a tragic accident"
- of or relating to or characteristic of tragedy; "tragic hero"
- Tragedy (tragōidia, "he-goat-song"Middle English tragedie < Middle French tragedie < Latin tragoedia < , tragōidia; see "Tragedy", p. 1637 in E. Klein, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, Volume II L-Z, Elsevier (1967). ...
- Causing great sadness or suffering; Relating to tragedy in a literary work
- (tragicness) The state or quality of being tragic
- Now being used in newspapers to whip up emotion about any public death.
- Very sad and upsetting.