Dictionary entry

Tragic

Webster's Dictionary 1913

{ Trag″ic (?), Trag″ic‐al (?), } a. [L. tragicus, Gr.�: cf. F. tragique.] 1. Of or pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy; as, a tragic poem; a tragic play or representation.

2. Fatal to life; mournful; terrible; calamitous; as, the tragic scenes of the French revolution.

3. 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.