Definition of tragic in English:

tragic

adjective ˈtradʒɪkˈtrædʒɪk

1Causing or characterized by extreme distress or sorrow.
悲惨的；可悲的
the shooting was a tragic accident
这起枪杀事件是场悲剧。
Example sentencesExamples
- A young boy has died in a tragic accident after he was pulled unconscious from a swimming pool.
- It was a tragic accident, and in the U.S., no matter how tragic, most accidents are not crimes.
- Safety rules for school trips are to be tightened up in a bid to reduce the potential for tragic accidents.
- It was also apparent that an early morning tragic road accident in Monasterevin was to delay its progress.
- In the past three years, eight young people from the general area have lost their lives in tragic accidents.
- Police are treating the death as a tragic accident and the coroner has been informed.
- Nothing they told us suggests that this was anything other than a tragic accident.
- It could have been a tragic accident, or there could have been third party involvement.
- Everyone at the school is extremely shaken and saddened by the tragic accident.
- Three more people died on local roads in the past week in two tragic accidents
- They have warned those looking after children to keep them away from garages and factory sites before there is a tragic accident.
- Their deaths are so tragic that several minutes are spent on their horror.
- It was there that he had a tragic accident with a saw in which he lost his left hand.
- Hampshire police have described the incident as a tragic accident.
- There was no evidence it was anything but a very tragic accident.
- There have been a couple of tragic accident deaths over the weekend, and the congestion is bad on a daily basis.
- This is a plea to all bar owners and councillors to help make Bolton a place to be proud of and to prevent these tragic accidents happening.
- An explosion which killed a retired couple at their home was a tragic accident, an inquest heard yesterday.
- Early today, they did not believe there were any suspicious circumstances and said they thought it was a tragic accident.
- It was a tragic accident, but accidents happen in demolition all the time.
Synonyms
disastrous, calamitous, catastrophic, cataclysmic, devastating, terrible, dreadful, appalling, horrendous, dire, ruinous, gruesome, awful, miserable, wretched, unfortunate
fatal, deadly, mortal, lethal
dreadful, terrible, awful, deplorable, lamentable, regrettable, abject, miserable, wretched, grievous, galling, vexatious
1. 1.1 Suffering extreme distress or sorrow.
  悲惨的；可悲的
  the tragic parents reached the end of their tether
  双亲悲不自胜。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The devastated parents of a tragic two-year-old girl who died after choking told of their heartache last night.
  His later years were miserable and tragic: he was put in jail and died poor in 1968.
  The sister is married and living in the same apartment where her tragic parents once resided.
  The agony goes on for the parents of the tragic four-year-old as doctors remain baffled as to how he died.
  The tragic lives of parents are never a reason to repeat the tragedy upon their children.
  If a happy state of things, surprising; if miserable or tragic, no worse than what we invent.
  Also the killing of these animals is only the last atrocity that they have to suffer throughout their short, tragic lives.
  The parents of tragic Robbie are celebrating the birth of a baby daughter.
  The Left in two of its three forms in the UK is suffering badly from this whole tragic mess.
  Most shamefully of all, she hid behind the tragic parents of the girl, who she exploited.
  Synonyms
  sad, unhappy, pathetic, moving, distressing, painful, sorrowful, heart-rending, agonizing, stirring, disturbing, pitiful, piteous
  melancholy, doleful, mournful, dejected, despondent, anguished, desolate, dismal, gloomy
2. 1.2informal Very bad or inadequate.
  the fact that they are so loved-up reminds me just how spectacularly tragic my life is
  she wears tragic cardigans, usually done up the wrong way
  Example sentencesExamples
  I don't like sport, but partaking in an empty bout of national whooping and cheering simply for the sake of it would be utterly tragic.
  Oh, but the 1980s were tragic, weren't they?
  The Bradys sport the same tragic early-seventies quiffs, boast wardrobes packed with polyester flares, and talk in absurd sitcom gagspeak.
  That reminds me. I'm going out to dinner at Isabella's tomorrow night. See? I'm not so tragic after all.
  Time to go for a wander - otherwise I'm in danger of turning into one of those tragic netslaves who go on holiday and spend two weeks figuring out how to say "do you have an adaptor?"
  Dicko says she looks better from the neck up, but her outfit is tragic, and she should dress "younger".
  Mince pies become my life once December begins. Well, maybe not my life. I'm not quite that tragic.
  Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits.
  The pictures bring back a flood of memories and the girls joke about their "tragic childhood haircuts" and their clothes.
  The last film I watched: this is tragic - embarrassing - I didn't mean to but I actually got hooked up in the movie channel yesterday daytime.
  We did see some great outfits but there were a few tragic ones, too.
  The other main character is Robert, another drinker - they connect through a shared knowledge of really tragic music, and there is a certain beauty to their relationship even if together they have double the trouble keeping off the bottle.
  Miss Wilson can't even control her tragic 70s hairdo let alone a class.
  I'm a model cinephile, sure, but beyond that, my God, I'm tragic.
  Afterwards, we retired over the road for a really tragic Italian meal.
  I know it's a bit tragic I could remember, that I took so long to do it, and that I actually bothered trying to remember.
2Relating to tragedy in a literary work.
（与）悲剧作品（有关）的
the same rules apply whether the plot is tragic or comic
Example sentencesExamples
- It was an excellent film - comic in parts, tragic in others, and poetic in others.
- He points out to tragic dramatists that what is seen on the stage makes a deeper impression than what is only narrated.
- He was the icon in an era of icons, but like Shakespeare's tragic heroes his fatal flaws cut short a certain glittering career.
- He laughs, mocking the pose a Shakespearean actor might take during a particularly tragic scene.
- Seeing the work as a crude forebear of Elizabethan tragic drama effaces its status as an instance of de casibus literature.
- The excellent cast manage to tease out the humour of the play without undermining its tragic elements.
- Then again, it's a theme of war films to make tragedies all the more tragic, isn't it?
- Darius, of course, casts himself in the tragic rather than the comic mould.
- It is truly tragic - but not in the way that Shakespeare intended, and surely not in the way that the producers had in mind.
- There is thus a mixture of the comic and the tragic, the virtuous and the villainous, the young and the old, the male and the female.
- The tragic, or Shakespearean, version of the story runs something like this.
- We analysed the plot movements within the parables, distinguishing between tragic and comic parables.
- The passionate retelling of Shakespeare's tragic story is set in the Italian city of Verona during high summer.
- The Play of King Lear is a great tragic play that many tragedies try to compare to.
- They don't have categories for best actor in romantic role or best actor in a tragic role, so why comedy?
- It may not be his most original play but it is his most unrelievedly tragic.
- It looked as though the record, like the opera, was to have a tragic finale.
- I've played Macbeth; you could call him a villain but Shakespeare calls him tragic.
- One was left, at the end of the play, with a sense of pity for him, which was more due to his performance than the tragic figure he portrayed.
- Hubris, the fatal flaw of a tragic hero which blinds him to the reality of the world, is not exactly in short supply at the present.

noun ˈtradʒɪk

Australian, NZ informal

A boring or socially inept person, typically having an obsessive and solitary interest.
at school she's not a complete tragic, but she's not exactly popular either
Example sentencesExamples
- It takes a tragic to know a tragic.
- As well as being a cricket tragic, I am a keen, enthusiastic but erratic golfer.
- For those of us who are political tragics, the smell of battle is in the air.
- Let's face it, we're a nation of quiz show tragics.
- And while he enjoys the odd bit of media work he does - reducing ABC radio host and rugby tragic Sally Loane to regular fits of girlish giggles during their weekly chats throughout the 2003 World Cup - he's not grooming himself for a switch to screen any time soon.
- The PM had a strong personal interest in the dealings, being a self-confessed "cricket tragic".
- And despite what cricket tragics and sports writers might want to believe Lost, CSI, Desperate Housewives, Law and Order and a host of other programs attract more viewers than the cricket.
- It's one of those moments that cricket tragics such as ourselves will never forget.
- The action starts at 2 pm, and as a political tragic, I can hardly wait!
- It's like being ambushed by a rugby tragic who can recite meaningless statistics and All Blacks anecdotes with all the subtlety of a rolling maul.
- I must confess - I am a cricket tragic.
- The game had to build on its enormous base, as it developed a broad appeal to sports fans, even if they weren't soccer tragics.
- All over England, victory-starved cricket tragics are desperately hoping that their team can finally win a series against Australia.
- This is how seriously many football tragics take the game here in Melbourne.
- This reassured me somewhat though it also made me feel like a tragic since I would never ever have thought it was acceptable to bring a book to the pub.

Derivatives

tragical

adjective

In Chapter Six, Johnny meets Belladonna and loses her again, in tragical circumstances.
Example sentencesExamples
- One of the things which I've learned from it all, from this - it's amazing how some - such a tragical experience can bring so much love and so much - can teach you so much.
- However much he might mock the pedantic generic confusions of the ‘pastoral, tragical comical’ theatre of his predecessors, Shakespeare was their heir.
- The melancholy way of treating religion is that which, according to my apprehension, renders it so tragical, and is the occasion of its acting in reality such dismal tragedies in the world.
- In this sense, Shylock is a tragical figure instead of a comical one, because he has to make a difficult decision, either result of which will hurt himself.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French tragique, via Latin from Greek tragikos, from tragos 'goat', but associated with tragōidia (see tragedy).

Rhymes

bathypelagic, magic

Definition of tragic in US English:

tragic

adjectiveˈtrædʒɪkˈtrajik

1Causing or characterized by extreme distress or sorrow.
悲惨的；可悲的
the shooting was a tragic accident
这起枪杀事件是场悲剧。
Example sentencesExamples
- It was a tragic accident, and in the U.S., no matter how tragic, most accidents are not crimes.
- In the past three years, eight young people from the general area have lost their lives in tragic accidents.
- A young boy has died in a tragic accident after he was pulled unconscious from a swimming pool.
- It was a tragic accident, but accidents happen in demolition all the time.
- There was no evidence it was anything but a very tragic accident.
- Hampshire police have described the incident as a tragic accident.
- It was also apparent that an early morning tragic road accident in Monasterevin was to delay its progress.
- Three more people died on local roads in the past week in two tragic accidents
- This is a plea to all bar owners and councillors to help make Bolton a place to be proud of and to prevent these tragic accidents happening.
- Everyone at the school is extremely shaken and saddened by the tragic accident.
- It could have been a tragic accident, or there could have been third party involvement.
- They have warned those looking after children to keep them away from garages and factory sites before there is a tragic accident.
- Their deaths are so tragic that several minutes are spent on their horror.
- Safety rules for school trips are to be tightened up in a bid to reduce the potential for tragic accidents.
- Police are treating the death as a tragic accident and the coroner has been informed.
- Nothing they told us suggests that this was anything other than a tragic accident.
- An explosion which killed a retired couple at their home was a tragic accident, an inquest heard yesterday.
- Early today, they did not believe there were any suspicious circumstances and said they thought it was a tragic accident.
- It was there that he had a tragic accident with a saw in which he lost his left hand.
- There have been a couple of tragic accident deaths over the weekend, and the congestion is bad on a daily basis.
Synonyms
disastrous, calamitous, catastrophic, cataclysmic, devastating, terrible, dreadful, appalling, horrendous, dire, ruinous, gruesome, awful, miserable, wretched, unfortunate
dreadful, terrible, awful, deplorable, lamentable, regrettable, abject, miserable, wretched, grievous, galling, vexatious
1. 1.1 Suffering extreme distress or sorrow.
  悲惨的；可悲的
  the tragic parents reached the end of their tether
  双亲悲不自胜。
  Example sentencesExamples
  If a happy state of things, surprising; if miserable or tragic, no worse than what we invent.
  Most shamefully of all, she hid behind the tragic parents of the girl, who she exploited.
  The Left in two of its three forms in the UK is suffering badly from this whole tragic mess.
  His later years were miserable and tragic: he was put in jail and died poor in 1968.
  The agony goes on for the parents of the tragic four-year-old as doctors remain baffled as to how he died.
  The tragic lives of parents are never a reason to repeat the tragedy upon their children.
  The devastated parents of a tragic two-year-old girl who died after choking told of their heartache last night.
  The parents of tragic Robbie are celebrating the birth of a baby daughter.
  Also the killing of these animals is only the last atrocity that they have to suffer throughout their short, tragic lives.
  The sister is married and living in the same apartment where her tragic parents once resided.
  Synonyms
  sad, unhappy, pathetic, moving, distressing, painful, sorrowful, heart-rending, agonizing, stirring, disturbing, pitiful, piteous
2. 1.2informal Very bad or inadeqate.
  she wears tragic cardigans, usually done up the wrong way
  on the other hand, I like degenerate, tragic food
  Example sentencesExamples
  Dicko says she looks better from the neck up, but her outfit is tragic, and she should dress "younger".
  Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits.
  The pictures bring back a flood of memories and the girls joke about their "tragic childhood haircuts" and their clothes.
  Oh, but the 1980s were tragic, weren't they?
  I don't like sport, but partaking in an empty bout of national whooping and cheering simply for the sake of it would be utterly tragic.
  We did see some great outfits but there were a few tragic ones, too.
  The Bradys sport the same tragic early-seventies quiffs, boast wardrobes packed with polyester flares, and talk in absurd sitcom gagspeak.
  Time to go for a wander - otherwise I'm in danger of turning into one of those tragic netslaves who go on holiday and spend two weeks figuring out how to say "do you have an adaptor?"
  Afterwards, we retired over the road for a really tragic Italian meal.
  Mince pies become my life once December begins. Well, maybe not my life. I'm not quite that tragic.
  The last film I watched: this is tragic - embarrassing - I didn't mean to but I actually got hooked up in the movie channel yesterday daytime.
  Miss Wilson can't even control her tragic 70s hairdo let alone a class.
  I know it's a bit tragic I could remember, that I took so long to do it, and that I actually bothered trying to remember.
  The other main character is Robert, another drinker - they connect through a shared knowledge of really tragic music, and there is a certain beauty to their relationship even if together they have double the trouble keeping off the bottle.
  That reminds me. I'm going out to dinner at Isabella's tomorrow night. See? I'm not so tragic after all.
  I'm a model cinephile, sure, but beyond that, my God, I'm tragic.
2Relating to tragedy in a literary work.
（与）悲剧作品（有关）的
Example sentencesExamples
- Hubris, the fatal flaw of a tragic hero which blinds him to the reality of the world, is not exactly in short supply at the present.
- Darius, of course, casts himself in the tragic rather than the comic mould.
- Seeing the work as a crude forebear of Elizabethan tragic drama effaces its status as an instance of de casibus literature.
- The passionate retelling of Shakespeare's tragic story is set in the Italian city of Verona during high summer.
- It was an excellent film - comic in parts, tragic in others, and poetic in others.
- He laughs, mocking the pose a Shakespearean actor might take during a particularly tragic scene.
- It is truly tragic - but not in the way that Shakespeare intended, and surely not in the way that the producers had in mind.
- I've played Macbeth; you could call him a villain but Shakespeare calls him tragic.
- The Play of King Lear is a great tragic play that many tragedies try to compare to.
- The tragic, or Shakespearean, version of the story runs something like this.
- It may not be his most original play but it is his most unrelievedly tragic.
- Then again, it's a theme of war films to make tragedies all the more tragic, isn't it?
- There is thus a mixture of the comic and the tragic, the virtuous and the villainous, the young and the old, the male and the female.
- The excellent cast manage to tease out the humour of the play without undermining its tragic elements.
- He points out to tragic dramatists that what is seen on the stage makes a deeper impression than what is only narrated.
- We analysed the plot movements within the parables, distinguishing between tragic and comic parables.
- They don't have categories for best actor in romantic role or best actor in a tragic role, so why comedy?
- He was the icon in an era of icons, but like Shakespeare's tragic heroes his fatal flaws cut short a certain glittering career.
- One was left, at the end of the play, with a sense of pity for him, which was more due to his performance than the tragic figure he portrayed.
- It looked as though the record, like the opera, was to have a tragic finale.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French tragique, via Latin from Greek tragikos, from tragos ‘goat’, but associated with tragōidia (see tragedy).

词汇	tragic
释义	Definition of tragic in English: tragic adjective ˈtradʒɪkˈtrædʒɪk 1Causing or characterized by extreme distress or sorrow. 悲惨的；可悲的 the shooting was a tragic accident 这起枪杀事件是场悲剧。 Example sentencesExamples A young boy has died in a tragic accident after he was pulled unconscious from a swimming pool. It was a tragic accident, and in the U.S., no matter how tragic, most accidents are not crimes. Safety rules for school trips are to be tightened up in a bid to reduce the potential for tragic accidents. It was also apparent that an early morning tragic road accident in Monasterevin was to delay its progress. In the past three years, eight young people from the general area have lost their lives in tragic accidents. Police are treating the death as a tragic accident and the coroner has been informed. Nothing they told us suggests that this was anything other than a tragic accident. It could have been a tragic accident, or there could have been third party involvement. Everyone at the school is extremely shaken and saddened by the tragic accident. Three more people died on local roads in the past week in two tragic accidents They have warned those looking after children to keep them away from garages and factory sites before there is a tragic accident. Their deaths are so tragic that several minutes are spent on their horror. It was there that he had a tragic accident with a saw in which he lost his left hand. Hampshire police have described the incident as a tragic accident. There was no evidence it was anything but a very tragic accident. There have been a couple of tragic accident deaths over the weekend, and the congestion is bad on a daily basis. This is a plea to all bar owners and councillors to help make Bolton a place to be proud of and to prevent these tragic accidents happening. An explosion which killed a retired couple at their home was a tragic accident, an inquest heard yesterday. Early today, they did not believe there were any suspicious circumstances and said they thought it was a tragic accident. It was a tragic accident, but accidents happen in demolition all the time. Synonyms disastrous, calamitous, catastrophic, cataclysmic, devastating, terrible, dreadful, appalling, horrendous, dire, ruinous, gruesome, awful, miserable, wretched, unfortunate fatal, deadly, mortal, lethal dreadful, terrible, awful, deplorable, lamentable, regrettable, abject, miserable, wretched, grievous, galling, vexatious 1.1 Suffering extreme distress or sorrow. 悲惨的；可悲的 the tragic parents reached the end of their tether 双亲悲不自胜。 Example sentencesExamples The devastated parents of a tragic two-year-old girl who died after choking told of their heartache last night. His later years were miserable and tragic: he was put in jail and died poor in 1968. The sister is married and living in the same apartment where her tragic parents once resided. The agony goes on for the parents of the tragic four-year-old as doctors remain baffled as to how he died. The tragic lives of parents are never a reason to repeat the tragedy upon their children. If a happy state of things, surprising; if miserable or tragic, no worse than what we invent. Also the killing of these animals is only the last atrocity that they have to suffer throughout their short, tragic lives. The parents of tragic Robbie are celebrating the birth of a baby daughter. The Left in two of its three forms in the UK is suffering badly from this whole tragic mess. Most shamefully of all, she hid behind the tragic parents of the girl, who she exploited. Synonyms sad, unhappy, pathetic, moving, distressing, painful, sorrowful, heart-rending, agonizing, stirring, disturbing, pitiful, piteous melancholy, doleful, mournful, dejected, despondent, anguished, desolate, dismal, gloomy 1.2informal Very bad or inadequate. the fact that they are so loved-up reminds me just how spectacularly tragic my life is she wears tragic cardigans, usually done up the wrong way Example sentencesExamples I don't like sport, but partaking in an empty bout of national whooping and cheering simply for the sake of it would be utterly tragic. Oh, but the 1980s were tragic, weren't they? The Bradys sport the same tragic early-seventies quiffs, boast wardrobes packed with polyester flares, and talk in absurd sitcom gagspeak. That reminds me. I'm going out to dinner at Isabella's tomorrow night. See? I'm not so tragic after all. Time to go for a wander - otherwise I'm in danger of turning into one of those tragic netslaves who go on holiday and spend two weeks figuring out how to say "do you have an adaptor?" Dicko says she looks better from the neck up, but her outfit is tragic, and she should dress "younger". Mince pies become my life once December begins. Well, maybe not my life. I'm not quite that tragic. Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits. The pictures bring back a flood of memories and the girls joke about their "tragic childhood haircuts" and their clothes. The last film I watched: this is tragic - embarrassing - I didn't mean to but I actually got hooked up in the movie channel yesterday daytime. We did see some great outfits but there were a few tragic ones, too. The other main character is Robert, another drinker - they connect through a shared knowledge of really tragic music, and there is a certain beauty to their relationship even if together they have double the trouble keeping off the bottle. Miss Wilson can't even control her tragic 70s hairdo let alone a class. I'm a model cinephile, sure, but beyond that, my God, I'm tragic. Afterwards, we retired over the road for a really tragic Italian meal. I know it's a bit tragic I could remember, that I took so long to do it, and that I actually bothered trying to remember. 2Relating to tragedy in a literary work. （与）悲剧作品（有关）的 the same rules apply whether the plot is tragic or comic Example sentencesExamples It was an excellent film - comic in parts, tragic in others, and poetic in others. He points out to tragic dramatists that what is seen on the stage makes a deeper impression than what is only narrated. He was the icon in an era of icons, but like Shakespeare's tragic heroes his fatal flaws cut short a certain glittering career. He laughs, mocking the pose a Shakespearean actor might take during a particularly tragic scene. Seeing the work as a crude forebear of Elizabethan tragic drama effaces its status as an instance of de casibus literature. The excellent cast manage to tease out the humour of the play without undermining its tragic elements. Then again, it's a theme of war films to make tragedies all the more tragic, isn't it? Darius, of course, casts himself in the tragic rather than the comic mould. It is truly tragic - but not in the way that Shakespeare intended, and surely not in the way that the producers had in mind. There is thus a mixture of the comic and the tragic, the virtuous and the villainous, the young and the old, the male and the female. The tragic, or Shakespearean, version of the story runs something like this. We analysed the plot movements within the parables, distinguishing between tragic and comic parables. The passionate retelling of Shakespeare's tragic story is set in the Italian city of Verona during high summer. The Play of King Lear is a great tragic play that many tragedies try to compare to. They don't have categories for best actor in romantic role or best actor in a tragic role, so why comedy? It may not be his most original play but it is his most unrelievedly tragic. It looked as though the record, like the opera, was to have a tragic finale. I've played Macbeth; you could call him a villain but Shakespeare calls him tragic. One was left, at the end of the play, with a sense of pity for him, which was more due to his performance than the tragic figure he portrayed. Hubris, the fatal flaw of a tragic hero which blinds him to the reality of the world, is not exactly in short supply at the present. noun ˈtradʒɪk Australian, NZ informal A boring or socially inept person, typically having an obsessive and solitary interest. at school she's not a complete tragic, but she's not exactly popular either Example sentencesExamples It takes a tragic to know a tragic. As well as being a cricket tragic, I am a keen, enthusiastic but erratic golfer. For those of us who are political tragics, the smell of battle is in the air. Let's face it, we're a nation of quiz show tragics. And while he enjoys the odd bit of media work he does - reducing ABC radio host and rugby tragic Sally Loane to regular fits of girlish giggles during their weekly chats throughout the 2003 World Cup - he's not grooming himself for a switch to screen any time soon. The PM had a strong personal interest in the dealings, being a self-confessed "cricket tragic". And despite what cricket tragics and sports writers might want to believe Lost, CSI, Desperate Housewives, Law and Order and a host of other programs attract more viewers than the cricket. It's one of those moments that cricket tragics such as ourselves will never forget. The action starts at 2 pm, and as a political tragic, I can hardly wait! It's like being ambushed by a rugby tragic who can recite meaningless statistics and All Blacks anecdotes with all the subtlety of a rolling maul. I must confess - I am a cricket tragic. The game had to build on its enormous base, as it developed a broad appeal to sports fans, even if they weren't soccer tragics. All over England, victory-starved cricket tragics are desperately hoping that their team can finally win a series against Australia. This is how seriously many football tragics take the game here in Melbourne. This reassured me somewhat though it also made me feel like a tragic since I would never ever have thought it was acceptable to bring a book to the pub. Derivatives tragical adjective In Chapter Six, Johnny meets Belladonna and loses her again, in tragical circumstances. Example sentencesExamples One of the things which I've learned from it all, from this - it's amazing how some - such a tragical experience can bring so much love and so much - can teach you so much. However much he might mock the pedantic generic confusions of the ‘pastoral, tragical comical’ theatre of his predecessors, Shakespeare was their heir. The melancholy way of treating religion is that which, according to my apprehension, renders it so tragical, and is the occasion of its acting in reality such dismal tragedies in the world. In this sense, Shylock is a tragical figure instead of a comical one, because he has to make a difficult decision, either result of which will hurt himself. Origin Mid 16th century: from French tragique, via Latin from Greek tragikos, from tragos 'goat', but associated with tragōidia (see tragedy). Rhymes bathypelagic, magic Definition of tragic in US English: tragic adjectiveˈtrædʒɪkˈtrajik 1Causing or characterized by extreme distress or sorrow. 悲惨的；可悲的 the shooting was a tragic accident 这起枪杀事件是场悲剧。 Example sentencesExamples It was a tragic accident, and in the U.S., no matter how tragic, most accidents are not crimes. In the past three years, eight young people from the general area have lost their lives in tragic accidents. A young boy has died in a tragic accident after he was pulled unconscious from a swimming pool. It was a tragic accident, but accidents happen in demolition all the time. There was no evidence it was anything but a very tragic accident. Hampshire police have described the incident as a tragic accident. It was also apparent that an early morning tragic road accident in Monasterevin was to delay its progress. Three more people died on local roads in the past week in two tragic accidents This is a plea to all bar owners and councillors to help make Bolton a place to be proud of and to prevent these tragic accidents happening. Everyone at the school is extremely shaken and saddened by the tragic accident. It could have been a tragic accident, or there could have been third party involvement. They have warned those looking after children to keep them away from garages and factory sites before there is a tragic accident. Their deaths are so tragic that several minutes are spent on their horror. Safety rules for school trips are to be tightened up in a bid to reduce the potential for tragic accidents. Police are treating the death as a tragic accident and the coroner has been informed. Nothing they told us suggests that this was anything other than a tragic accident. An explosion which killed a retired couple at their home was a tragic accident, an inquest heard yesterday. Early today, they did not believe there were any suspicious circumstances and said they thought it was a tragic accident. It was there that he had a tragic accident with a saw in which he lost his left hand. There have been a couple of tragic accident deaths over the weekend, and the congestion is bad on a daily basis. Synonyms disastrous, calamitous, catastrophic, cataclysmic, devastating, terrible, dreadful, appalling, horrendous, dire, ruinous, gruesome, awful, miserable, wretched, unfortunate dreadful, terrible, awful, deplorable, lamentable, regrettable, abject, miserable, wretched, grievous, galling, vexatious 1.1 Suffering extreme distress or sorrow. 悲惨的；可悲的 the tragic parents reached the end of their tether 双亲悲不自胜。 Example sentencesExamples If a happy state of things, surprising; if miserable or tragic, no worse than what we invent. Most shamefully of all, she hid behind the tragic parents of the girl, who she exploited. The Left in two of its three forms in the UK is suffering badly from this whole tragic mess. His later years were miserable and tragic: he was put in jail and died poor in 1968. The agony goes on for the parents of the tragic four-year-old as doctors remain baffled as to how he died. The tragic lives of parents are never a reason to repeat the tragedy upon their children. The devastated parents of a tragic two-year-old girl who died after choking told of their heartache last night. The parents of tragic Robbie are celebrating the birth of a baby daughter. Also the killing of these animals is only the last atrocity that they have to suffer throughout their short, tragic lives. The sister is married and living in the same apartment where her tragic parents once resided. Synonyms sad, unhappy, pathetic, moving, distressing, painful, sorrowful, heart-rending, agonizing, stirring, disturbing, pitiful, piteous 1.2informal Very bad or inadeqate. she wears tragic cardigans, usually done up the wrong way on the other hand, I like degenerate, tragic food Example sentencesExamples Dicko says she looks better from the neck up, but her outfit is tragic, and she should dress "younger". Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits. The pictures bring back a flood of memories and the girls joke about their "tragic childhood haircuts" and their clothes. Oh, but the 1980s were tragic, weren't they? I don't like sport, but partaking in an empty bout of national whooping and cheering simply for the sake of it would be utterly tragic. We did see some great outfits but there were a few tragic ones, too. The Bradys sport the same tragic early-seventies quiffs, boast wardrobes packed with polyester flares, and talk in absurd sitcom gagspeak. Time to go for a wander - otherwise I'm in danger of turning into one of those tragic netslaves who go on holiday and spend two weeks figuring out how to say "do you have an adaptor?" Afterwards, we retired over the road for a really tragic Italian meal. Mince pies become my life once December begins. Well, maybe not my life. I'm not quite that tragic. The last film I watched: this is tragic - embarrassing - I didn't mean to but I actually got hooked up in the movie channel yesterday daytime. Miss Wilson can't even control her tragic 70s hairdo let alone a class. I know it's a bit tragic I could remember, that I took so long to do it, and that I actually bothered trying to remember. The other main character is Robert, another drinker - they connect through a shared knowledge of really tragic music, and there is a certain beauty to their relationship even if together they have double the trouble keeping off the bottle. That reminds me. I'm going out to dinner at Isabella's tomorrow night. See? I'm not so tragic after all. I'm a model cinephile, sure, but beyond that, my God, I'm tragic. 2Relating to tragedy in a literary work. （与）悲剧作品（有关）的 Example sentencesExamples Hubris, the fatal flaw of a tragic hero which blinds him to the reality of the world, is not exactly in short supply at the present. Darius, of course, casts himself in the tragic rather than the comic mould. Seeing the work as a crude forebear of Elizabethan tragic drama effaces its status as an instance of de casibus literature. The passionate retelling of Shakespeare's tragic story is set in the Italian city of Verona during high summer. It was an excellent film - comic in parts, tragic in others, and poetic in others. He laughs, mocking the pose a Shakespearean actor might take during a particularly tragic scene. It is truly tragic - but not in the way that Shakespeare intended, and surely not in the way that the producers had in mind. I've played Macbeth; you could call him a villain but Shakespeare calls him tragic. The Play of King Lear is a great tragic play that many tragedies try to compare to. The tragic, or Shakespearean, version of the story runs something like this. It may not be his most original play but it is his most unrelievedly tragic. Then again, it's a theme of war films to make tragedies all the more tragic, isn't it? There is thus a mixture of the comic and the tragic, the virtuous and the villainous, the young and the old, the male and the female. The excellent cast manage to tease out the humour of the play without undermining its tragic elements. He points out to tragic dramatists that what is seen on the stage makes a deeper impression than what is only narrated. We analysed the plot movements within the parables, distinguishing between tragic and comic parables. They don't have categories for best actor in romantic role or best actor in a tragic role, so why comedy? He was the icon in an era of icons, but like Shakespeare's tragic heroes his fatal flaws cut short a certain glittering career. One was left, at the end of the play, with a sense of pity for him, which was more due to his performance than the tragic figure he portrayed. It looked as though the record, like the opera, was to have a tragic finale. Origin Mid 16th century: from French tragique, via Latin from Greek tragikos, from tragos ‘goat’, but associated with tragōidia (see tragedy).
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