Tragical
adjective
1.
characteristic or suggestive of tragedy:
tragic solemnity.
2.
extremely mournful, melancholy, or pathetic:
a tragic plight.
3.
dreadful, calamitous, disastrous, or fatal:
a tragic event.
4.
of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of tragedy:
the tragic drama.
5.
acting in or writing tragedy:
a tragic actor; a tragic poet.
6.
the tragic, the element or quality of tragedy in literature, art, drama, etc.:
lives that had never known anything but the tragic.
adjective
1.
of, relating to, or characteristic of tragedy
2.
mournful or pitiable: a tragic face
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