[
UK
/tɹˈædʒɪkəl/
]
ADJECTIVE
-
very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction
a tragic plight
a tragic face
a tragic accident
How To Use tragical In A Sentence
- The Chorus also recalls how Bacchus' mother, a mortal woman, was killed after she was tragically struck by Zeus' thunderbolt.
- It was a throwaway remark that proved tragically prophetic.
- What is tragically evident from the Harry Read Me file is the picture it gives of the CRU scientists hopelessly at sea with the complex computer programmes they had devised to contort their data in the approved direction, more than once expressing their own desperation at how difficult it was to get the desired results. Coyote Blog » 2009 » November
- We have laws on murder, but, tragically, we still have murders and killings in this country.
- Tragically, the second version was also lost in a fire.
- We are now sanitized and correct, factual and precise, but tragically bereft of relationship.
- She wanted to free the Haluk — those highly intelligent, extremely numerous, misunderstood aliens — from the allomorphism that had so tragically hindered their progress. Perseus Spur
- Lolling in their leisurewear, with lager cans as a substitute for ammo, these soldiers don't quite belong in that tragically vulnerable company. The big picture: On the way to the Falklands War, 1982
- Originally published in 1971, the publication has at its heart what purports to be the yearbook of the fictional C. Estes Kefauver Memorial High School in tragically woebegone Dacron, Ohio.
- One of the things which I've learned from it all, from this - it's amazing how some - such a tragical experience can bring so much love and so much - can teach you so much.