Definitions for tragedy

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tragedy trag·e·dy

Spelling: [traj-i-dee]

IPA: /ˈtrædʒ ɪ di/

Tragedy is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 200 anagrams from letters in tragedy (adegrty).

Definitions for tragedy

noun

1. a lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or affair; calamity; disaster:
2. a dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically involving a great person destined to experience downfall or utter destruction, as through a character flaw or conflict with some overpowering force, as fate or an unyielding society.
3. the branch of the drama that is concerned with this form of composition.
4. the art and theory of writing and producing tragedies.
5. any literary composition, as a novel, dealing with a somber theme carried to a tragic or disastrous conclusion.
6. the tragic or mournful or calamitous element of drama, of literature generally, or of life.

Origin of tragedy

1325-75; Middle English tragedie Medieval Latin tragēdia, Latin tragoedia Greek tragōidía, equivalent to trág(os) goat + ōidḗ song (see ode) + -ia -y

Examples for tragedy

A senior law enforcement official suggested one early lesson from the tragedy.

When twelve people are killed by violence, whoever they are, for whatever reason, that is a tragedy and a waste.

In the first second of the tragedy, Dick had not understood.

Reginald's escape had rather knocked the tragedy out of the evening.

The fate of AirAsia Flight 8501 and the 162 souls on board is a tragedy, but it will not remain a mystery for much longer.

It is their virtue in life to be lonely, and none but the lonely man in tragedy may be great.

Does the sending of the message “justify” the tragedy that caused it?

In Confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy, the self-induced, self-absorbed Greek tragedy of Andrew Lohse.

It was Demarest who gave an official touch to the tragedy of the moment.

He had no suspicion as to the tragedy that lay between him and her.