Search Result for "tragic": 
Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction;
- Example: "a tragic face"
- Example: "a tragic plight"
- Example: "a tragic accident"
[syn: tragic, tragical]

2. of or relating to or characteristic of tragedy;
- Example: "tragic hero"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tragic \Trag"ic\, Tragical \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. [1913 Webster] 2. Fatal to life; mournful; terrible; calamitous; as, the tragic scenes of the French revolution. [1913 Webster] 3. Mournful; expressive of tragedy, the loss of life, or of sorrow. [1913 Webster] Why look you still so stern and tragical ? --Shak. [1913 Webster] -- Trag"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Trag"ic*al*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tragic \Trag"ic\, n. 1. A writer of tragedy. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 2. A tragedy; a tragic drama. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

tragic adj 1: very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction; "a tragic face"; "a tragic plight"; "a tragic accident" [syn: tragic, tragical] 2: of or relating to or characteristic of tragedy; "tragic hero"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

64 Moby Thesaurus words for "tragic": appalling, atrocious, awful, baneful, beastly, black, buskined, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, cheerless, cothurned, crushing, deplorable, depressing, destructive, dire, disastrous, dismal, distressing, disturbing, dolorous, dreadful, fatal, forlorn, funereal, grievous, grim, hapless, heavy, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicious, lachrymose, lamentable, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, morose, mournful, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, rotten, ruinous, sad, shocking, star-crossed, terrible, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, unspeakable, upsetting, wreckful, wretched