tragic
adjective
characteristic or suggestive of tragedy.
tragicalness
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a word derived from
tragic.
Example Sentences
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Indeed, the spectacle of this young girl absurdly behaving like one, in a serious crisis, increased the tragicalness of the situation even if it did not heighten it.
From The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
There is a certain tragic phase of humanity, which, in our opinion, was never more powerfully embodied than by Hawthorne: we mean the tragicalness of human thought in its own unbiased, native, and profound workings.
From A Study of Hawthorne by George Parsons Lathrop
The only book of his that I re-read is The Light that Failed, for its abundant vitality and tragicalness; but the same temperamental repugnance overcomes me even there.
From The Upton Letters by Arthur Christopher Benson
