单词 | tragic |
释义 | tragic —tragically, adv. —tragicalness, n. /traj"ik/, adj. 1. characteristic or suggestive of tragedy: tragic solemnity. 2. extremely mournful, melancholy, or pathetic: a tragic plight. 3. dreadful, calamitous, disastrous, or fatal: a tragic event. 4. of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of tragedy: the tragic drama. 5. acting in or writing tragedy: a tragic actor; a tragic poet. 6. the tragic, the element or quality of tragedy in literature, art, drama, etc.: lives that had never known anything but the tragic. Also, tragical. [1535-45; < L tragicus < Gk tragikós of tragedy, equiv. to trág(os) goat + -ikos -IC] Syn. 2. distressing, pitiful. Ant. 1-3. comic. |
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