tragic
US: /ˈtɹædʒɪk/
UK: /tɹˈædʒɪk/
UK: /tɹˈædʒɪk/
English Vietnamese dictionary
tragic /'trædʤik/ (tragical) /'trædʤikəl/
- tính từ
- (thuộc) bi kịch
- tragic actor: diễn viên bi kịch
- (nghĩa bóng) bi thảm, thảm thương
- tragic event: sự việc bi thảm
- (thuộc) bi kịch
Advanced English dictionary
+ adjective
1 making you feel very sad, usually because sb has died or suffered a lot: He was killed in a tragic accident at the age of 24. + Cuts in the health service could have tragic consequences for patients. + It would be tragic if her talent remained unrecognized.
2 [only before noun] connected with tragedy (= the style of literature): a tragic actor / hero
tragically adverb: Tragically, his wife was killed in a car accident. + He died tragically young.
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
sad, depressing, lamentable, unhappy, funereal, forlorn, melancholy, cheerless, mournful, lachrymose, dolorous, grievous, morose, lugubrious, dismal, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, pathetic(al), appalling, wretched, dreadful, awful, terrible, horrible, deplorable, miserable, distressing, disturbing, upsetting, shocking, unlucky, unfortunate, hapless, ill-fated, inauspicious, star-crossed, ill-omened, ill-starred, calamitous, catastrophic, crushing, disastrous; tragical:
It was really tragic that we couldn't get there in time to say goodbye.
Collocation dictionary
VERBS
be, seem
ADV.
genuinely, particularly, really, terribly, very
a genuinely tragic figure in the play
| almost | quite, rather
a rather tragic story
Concise English dictionary
'trædʒɪk(l)
adj.
+very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction
+of or relating to or characteristic of tragedy
