Definition: 1. Very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction. 2. Of or relating to or characteristic of tragedy.
Use 'tragic' in a sentence:
1. Oh, I know, I know, it's meant to be so tragic–poor woman, trapped in a loveless marriage, yadda yadda yadda.
2. He called it the most grotesquely tragic experience he's ever had.
3. It was quite a tragic accident! No, I didn't see anything in the news about it.
4. It would be tragic if her talent remained unrecognized.
5. I know what it means to lose a child under such tragic circumstances.
6. Hook did so instantly, but with a tragic feeling that Peter was showing good form.
7. Mason was outclassed by Lennox Lewis in his tragic last fight at Wembley.
8. The play is both comic and tragic.
9. The novel is comic and tragic.
10. He was killed in a tragic accident at the age of 24.
11. It is all very tragic and I am afraid I just cannot bring myself to talk about it at the moment.
12. These tragic incidents have had an immediate effect.
13. The circumstances are tragic but we have to act within the law.
14. The kids of Kobe try to be as stoic as their parents in this tragic situation.
15. There they made their tragic and heroic last stand against the Roman legions.
16. He maintained that tragic causes were from internal rather than external.
17. While two of these ships sank, they were all designed with double hulls believed to make them "unsinkable", perhaps a mistaken idea that led to the Titanic's and the Britannic's tragic end.
18. The crash of Egypt Air Flight 804, which terrorists may have downed over the Mediterranean Sea, provides another tragic reminder of why.
19. Shakespeare wrote many wonderful comic and tragic plays.
20. There developed a practice that came to a tragic and terrible end.
21. On top of the tragic loss of life, the accident in California will cast a long shadow over the future of space tourism, even before it has properly begun.
22. Her death in the car accident was tragic; she was only 18.
23. the tragic loss of so many lives.
24. Marshall avoided the oppressed and tragic heroine in conflict with White society that had been typical of the protest novels of the early twentieth century.
25. They were his dogs snapping at him, but, tragic figure though he had become, he scarcely heeded them.
26. The ugly relationship among people damage human nature, and this damage put all the characters in his novel into the tragic abyss.
27. She met a tragic and untimely death at 25.
28. She was well fitted to the role of tragic heroine.
29. Tragic literature dignifies sorrow and disaster.
30. It was just a tragic accident.
31. There have been a lot of heroic and moving deeds performed in this fighting, both happy and tragic.
32. To a certain extent, we are all responsible for this tragic situation.
33. To a certain extent , we are all responsible for this tragic situation.
34. It's a tragic tale.
35. 'It's tragic!' swoons Jeffrey in mock horror.
36. "It's tragic!" swoons Jeffrey in mock horror.
37. Many cinema-goers were stunned by the film's violent and tragic end.
38. He drove too fast with tragic consequences.
39. He makes King Lear a truly tragic figure.
40. There is always a flaw in the character of a tragic hero.
41. Beneath the gloss of success was a tragic private life.
42. We do not want to see a repetition of last year's tragic events.
43. Now I come to the most painful and tragic part of my story.
44. Cuts in the health service could have tragic consequences for patients.
