Tragic

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"
    

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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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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64 Moby Thesaurus words for "tragic":
      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