tragic
/ˈtɹæd͡ʒɪk/ adjective B1- Causing great sadness or suffering. · Her father's early death was tragic.
- Relating to tragedy in a literary work.
- Having been the victim of a tragedy.
- Cringeworthy; tryhard; unhip; embarrassing; hopeless; indicative of (or having) a chronic lack of self-awareness. · That dress is tragic.· He's pretty tragic these days, hanging out with people half his age.
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Now it is revealed, this secret so full of horror, as the tragic poet says.
“True,” replied the marquise, without wincing in the slightest degree at the tragic remembrance thus called up; “but bear in mind, if you please, that our respective parents underwent persecution and proscription from diametrically opposite principles; in proof of which I may remark, that while my family remained among the staunchest adherents of the exiled princes, your father lost no time in joining the new government; and that while the Citizen Noirtier was a Girondin, the Count Noirtier became a senator.”
She entered now, a tall and beautiful woman of thirty, reserved and self-possessed to a remarkable degree, very different from the tragic and distracted figure I had pictured.
Dantès remained a prisoner, and heard not the noise of the fall of Louis XVIII.’s throne, or the still more tragic destruction of the empire.
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