tragic Meaning, Definition & Usage

adjective satellite very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction
tragical.
- a tragic face
- a tragic plight
- a tragic accident
adjective of or relating to or characteristic of tragedy
- tragic hero

L. tragicus, Gr.: cf. F. tragique.

Of or pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy; as, a tragic poem; a tragic play or representation.
Fatal to life; mournful; terrible; calamitous; as, the tragic scenes of the French revolution.
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.