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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
appalling, atrocious, awful, baneful, beastly, black, buskined, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, cheerless, cothurned, crushing, deplorable, depressing, destructive, dire, disastrous, dismal, distressing, disturbing, dolorous, dreadful, fatal, forlorn, funereal, grievous, grim, hapless, heavy, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicious, lachrymose, lamentable, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, morose, mournful, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, rotten, ruinous, sad, shocking, star-crossed, terrible, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, unspeakable, upsetting, wreckful, wretched
Dictionary Results for tragic:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
tragic
    adj 1: very sad; especially involving grief or death or
           destruction; "a tragic face"; "a tragic plight"; "a
           tragic accident" [syn: tragic, tragical]
    2: of or relating to or characteristic of tragedy; "tragic hero"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Tragic \Trag"ic\, Tragical \Trag"ic*al\, a. [L. tragicus, Gr.?:
   cf. F. tragique.]
   1. Of or pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of
      tragedy; as, a tragic poem; a tragic play or
      representation.
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   2. Fatal to life; mournful; terrible; calamitous; as, the
      tragic scenes of the French revolution.
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   3. Mournful; expressive of tragedy, the loss of life, or of
      sorrow.
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            Why look you still so stern and tragical ? --Shak.
      [1913 Webster] -- Trag"ic*al*ly, adv. --
      Trag"ic*al*ness, n.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Tragic \Trag"ic\, n.
   1. A writer of tragedy. [Obs.]
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   2. A tragedy; a tragic drama. [Obs.]
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