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Definition of Tragedy
1. Noun. An event resulting in great loss and misfortune. "The earthquake was a disaster"
Generic synonyms: Bad Luck, Misfortune
Specialized synonyms: Act Of God, Force Majeure, Inevitable Accident, Unavoidable Casualty, Vis Major, Apocalypse, Famine, Kiss Of Death, Meltdown, Plague, Visitation, Tidal Wave, Tsunami
Derivative terms: Calamitous, Cataclysmal, Cataclysmic, Disastrous, Tragic, Tragical
2. Noun. Drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity.
Definition of Tragedy
1. n. A dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue; that species of drama which represents the sad or terrible phases of character and life.
Definition of Tragedy
1. Noun. A drama or similar work, in which the main character is brought to ruin or otherwise suffers the extreme consequences of some tragic flaw or weakness of character. ¹
2. Noun. The genre of such works, and the art of producing them. ¹
3. Noun. A disastrous event, especially one involving great loss of life or injury. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tragedy
1. a disastrous event [n -DIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tragedy
Literary usage of Tragedy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The very variety of 'King Lear' is bewildering: there is a combination in the
play of the fable, the fairy story, the chronicle history and the tragedy of ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"CHAPTER IV Early English tragedy rrI ^HE history of renascence tragedy may be
divided into I three stages, not definitely limited, and not following in ..."
3. A Life of William Shakespeare by Sidney Lee (1916)
"With his advance in years there came in comedy and tragedy alike a larger ...
Ultimately, tragedy rather than comedy gave him the requisite scope for the ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Soon afterwards, in the Frogs, Aristophanes pronounced the epitaph of Attic Comedy
on Attic tragedy. In an age which is not yet ripe for reflection hil ..."
5. European Theories of the Drama: An Anthology of Dramatic Theory and by Barrett Harper Clark (1918)
"In common with other theorists, he upheld the dignity of tragedy, ... Although such
things are the proper material for tragedy, they would only remind us of ..."
6. The Observer by Richard Cumberland (1822)
"As to Plato's general assertion with respect to the high antiquity of the Athenian
tragedy, it seems thrown out as a paradox, which he does not attempt to ..."
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