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Tragedy   /trˈædʒədi/   Listen
Tragedy

noun
(pl. tragedies)
1.
An event resulting in great loss and misfortune.  Synonyms: calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster.  "The earthquake was a disaster"
2.
Drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity.





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"Tragedy" Quotes from Famous Books



... a right down tragedy, because then you'd be hung,—and so there'd be an end of us all. I don't think I'd ...
— Ralph the Heir • Anthony Trollope
... however, make but brief reference to this festive occasion, and proceed to tell of an event which created an unexpected sensation in our little community, and might have closed our New Year's Day amusements with a terrible tragedy. ...
— The Big Otter • R.M. Ballantyne
... up to town unexpectedly for a few days. "And he's just as well out of the way," she added briskly, "till we've got this tangle straight"—little dreaming that her nephew was responsible for the whole knotting of the tangled skein. By kindly probing she elicited the real, grim tragedy which lay behind all the gossip, and her anger against Eliot knew no bounds. But once she had given characteristic expression to her opinion of men in general, and of Eliot in particular, she promptly set to work to try and ...
— The Vision of Desire • Margaret Pedler
... word of protest the blades had clashed and they were hungry for blood. It was dark in the shadows of the trees and the trio were quite alone with their tragedy. She heard Baldos laugh recklessly in response to Marlanx's ...
— Beverly of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... you think the tragedy in the life of father was accidental? Due, I mean, to the particular characters of grandfather and poor mother? Now, if the one had been less proud, less exclusive, or the other more capable ...
— The Manxman - A Novel - 1895 • Hall Caine


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