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Etymology

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FromAncient Greekτραγικός(tragikós,“of or relating to tragedy”), fromτράγος(trágos,“male goat”), a reference to the goat-satyrs of the theatrical plays of theDorians.

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Adjective

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tragic (comparativemoretragic,superlativemosttragic)

  1. Causing greatsadness orsuffering.
    Synonyms:pitiful,rueful;see alsoThesaurus:lamentable
    • 2012 March-April,Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, inAmerican Scientist‎[1], volume100, number 2, page164:
      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 thetragic 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?
  2. Relating totragedy in aliterary work.
  3. (in tabloid newspapers) Having been thevictim of a tragedy.
    • 2008 February 14, “Search fortragic Madeleine McCann over”, inThe Daily Telegraph‎[2], Australia:
    • 2012 June 25, Gary Meneely, “Keano's tribute totragic James”, inThe Irish Sun‎[3]:
  4. (informal, chiefly predicative)Cringeworthy;tryhard;unhip;embarrassing;hopeless; indicative of (or having) achronic lack ofself-awareness.
    That dress istragic.
    He's prettytragic these days, hanging out with people half his age.

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Translations

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causing great sadness
relating to tragedy

Noun

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tragic (pluraltragics)

  1. (Australia, colloquial) An obsessive fan, asuperfan
  2. (obsolete) Awriter oftragedy.
  3. (obsolete) Atragedy; a tragicdrama.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition ofWebster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for“tragic”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.)

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromFrenchtragique, fromLatintragicus.

Adjective

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tragic m orn (feminine singulartragică,masculine pluraltragici,feminine and neuter pluraltragice)

  1. tragical

Declension

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Declension oftragic
singularplural
masculineneuterfemininemasculineneuterfeminine
nominative-
accusative		indefinitetragictragicătragicitragice
definitetragicultragicatragiciitragicele
genitive-
dative		indefinitetragictragicetragicitragice
definitetragiculuitragiceitragicilortragicelor
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