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Definition of Tragic
1. Adjective. Very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction. "A tragic accident"
2. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of tragedy. "Tragic hero"
Definition of Tragic
1. a. Of or pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy; as, a tragic poem; a tragic play or representation.
2. n. A writer of tragedy.
Definition of Tragic
1. Adjective. Causing great sadness or suffering. ¹
2. Adjective. Relating to tragedy in a literary work. ¹
3. Adjective. (context: in tabloid newspapers) Involved in a tragedy. ¹
4. Noun. (obsolete) A writer of tragedy. ¹
5. Noun. (obsolete) A tragedy; a tragic drama. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tragic
1. the element of a drama that produces tragedy [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tragic
Literary usage of Tragic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Attic Theatre: A Description of the Stage and Theatre of the Athenians by Arthur Elam Haigh (1898)
"Hence delineations of tragic scenes and figures, though Italian in origin, ...
The pictures of the tragic actor, whether found on Greek vases, ..."
2. European Theories of the Drama: An Anthology of Dramatic Theory and by Barrett Harper Clark (1918)
"ON tragic ART« [Ueber die tragische Kumt} (1792) If we now form the proper deductions
... A separate event, though it be ever so tragic, does not in itself ..."
3. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (1864)
"tragic ACTORS. MONTFLEURY, a French player, was one of the greatest actors of
his time for characters highly tragic. He died of the violent efforts he made ..."
4. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (1912)
"... enters distraught and takes tragic paces down stage; stoops down and listens
for a heart throb. ..."
5. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne by Adolphus William Ward (1899)
"Elements Now, from what has already been said, it must have mul comic become
abundantly manifest that elements of both tragic effect in the and comic effect ..."
6. Fasti Hellenici, the civil and literary chronology of Greece from the by Henry Fynes Clinton (1834)
"Among the tragic poets, who flourished from the beginning of the tragic art down
to the time of Aristotle, were the following : 1. Thespis, mentioned in the ..."
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