Crossword clues for tragical
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tragic \Trag"ic\, Tragical \Trag"ic*al\, a. [L. tragicus, Gr.?: cf. F. tragique.]
Of or pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy; as, a tragic poem; a tragic play or representation.
Fatal to life; mournful; terrible; calamitous; as, the tragic scenes of the French revolution.
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Mournful; expressive of tragedy, the loss of life, or of sorrow.
Why look you still so stern and tragical ?
--Shak. [1913 Webster] -- Trag"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Trag"ic*al*ness, n.
Wiktionary
a. (context archaic English) tragic
WordNet
adj. very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction; "a tragic face"; "a tragic plight"; "a tragic accident" [syn: tragic]
Usage examples of "tragical".
The misfortunes and tragical death of this God were an allegory relating to the Sun.
She hastily drew them off, and, when she descended to rejoin Madame Steno, it was not any more possible to perceive on those hands, freshly gloved, the traces of that tragical childishness, than it was possible to discern, beneath the large veil which she had tied over her hat, the traces of tears.
Chapter 2 Containing a very tragical incident While Jones was employed in those unpleasant meditations, with which we left him tormenting himself, Partridge came stumbling into the room with his face paler than ashes, his eyes fixed in his head, his hair standing on end, and every limb trembling.
Human life must appear very pathetic, and ofttimes tragical, as the angels look down upon it.
And yet these men despise everybody, talk absurdly of the gods, and drawing in a number of credulous boys, roar to them in a tragical style about virtue, and enter into disputations that are endless and unprofitable.
Joan divined the vain and futile and tragical nature of Kell's great enterprise.
Some time after their death, the interpreter, who had remained a kind of prisoner at large, effected his escape, and brought the tragical tidings to Astoria.
As no events, however, connected with this history occurred at Holt Castle, it will not be necessary to describe it further, and we will therefore return to the proud and beautiful castle of Sudley, where a tragical circumstance took place.
I refer, of course, to the Tragical History of Doctor Faustus as enacted by the players of the Earl of Nottingham and with the nonpareil Edward Alleyn in the title role.