Synonyms for tragic
ˈtrædʒ ɪktrag·ic

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1. tragic

   Synonyms:
   mournful, fatal, calamitous, sorrowful, shocking

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1. tragic, tragicaladjective

   very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction

   "a tragic face"; "a tragic plight"; "a tragic accident"

   Synonyms:
   tragical

   Antonyms:
   glad

2. tragicadjective

   of or relating to or characteristic of tragedy

   "tragic hero"

   Synonyms:
   tragical

   Antonyms:
   glad

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1. tragicadjective

   Synonyms:
   of tragedy, of the nature of tragedy, after the manner of tragedy

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1. List of paraphrases for "tragic":

   dramatic, sad, dire, unfortunate, catastrophic, terrible, drama, disastrous, miserable, tragedy, deplorable, appalling

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1. Hillary Clinton:

   What is wrong with us that we can't stand up to the NRA and the gun lobby and the gun manufacturers, this is not just tragic. We don't just need to pray for people, we need to act. We need to build a movement.

2. Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad:

   Frank It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.

3. Sylvia Loehrmann:

   It was a Spanish language exchange programme and they were flying home after having what was probably the most wonderful time of their lives, it's so tragic, so sad, so unfathomable.

4. Anthony Fauci:

   Almost all related to the social disadvantageous conditions that some people of color find themselves in from birth regarding availability of an adequate diet, access to health care and the undeniable effects of racism in our society, let us promise ourselves that our corporate memory of this tragic reality -- that an infectious disease disparately hospitalized and kills people of color -- does not fade after we return to some form of normality. Righting this wrong will take a decadeslong commitment. I strongly urge you to be part of that commitment.

5. Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence:

   Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we'd find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.