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adj. - Very sad.

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Usage examples (34)
  • Adjective : tragic solemnity. ,a tragic plight. ,a tragic event. ,the tragic drama. ,a tragic actor; a tragic poet. ,lives that had...
  • And Gorgias used to call tragical poems cheats, wherein he that did cheat was juster than he that did not cheat, and he that was cheated was wiser than he that was not...
  • The words are as 'tragical' and tender as were those of the melancholy Jaques.
  • He thought, with bitterness so real that it gave him a kind of tragical satisfaction, how certainly he could find him
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