Adjective: tragic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more tragic |
| Superlative | most tragic |
Sample Sentences
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Her father's early death was tragic.
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Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept? [2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2015, page 164:]
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[2008 February 14, “Search for tragic Madeleine McCann over”, in The Daily Telegraph, Australia:]
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[2012 June 25, Gary Meneely, “Keano's tribute to tragic James”, in The Irish Sun:]
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That dress is tragic.
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He's pretty tragic these days, hanging out with people half his age.
Adjectives inflected like tragic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek τραγικός (tragikós, “of or relating to tragedy”), from τράγος (trágos, “male goat”), a reference to the goat-satyrs of the theatrical plays of the Dorians.
Verbs referencing "tragic"
Finnish Adjectives
traaginen.