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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tragically
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
die tragically
▪ His wife had died tragically in an accident.
go tragically wrong (=so that death or serious injury results)
▪ A father and son died in a fire after a good deed for a friend went tragically wrong.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
die
▪ Alan died tragically young but my wife and I have remained friends with Diana and family of three girls ever since.
▪ Then their five year old daughter Sarah tragically died after contracting the illness.
kill
▪ In the following spring he was tragically killed in a motorcycle accident.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The marriage ended tragically when Norman caught her with another man.
▪ The number of patients with access to the drugs is tragically low.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And tragically, both killed themselves.
▪ During that time, another generation of schoolchildren has been tragically shortchanged.
▪ He pointed out that a young officer's life had been tragically taken while doing his duty, protecting others.
▪ Pain of a rather more tangible nature brought about Ricky Ellcock's tragically premature retirement.
▪ While never lovers, Joe and Mary are star-crossed, as tragically as Romeo and Juliet.
▪ Yet, tragically, the marriage which had promised so much became empty and joyless in later years.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tragically

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.

  2. Fatal to life; mournful; terrible; calamitous; as, the tragic scenes of the French revolution.

  3. 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
tragically

adv. In a tragic manner.

WordNet
tragically

adv. in a tragic manner; with tragic consequences; "the adventure ended tragically"; "tragically, she contracted AIDS"

Usage examples of "tragically".

Audra Griffiths, of the Holyhead Harpies, and Wilmer Parkin, of the Wigtown Wanderers, both tragically lost in the recent attack on Diagon Alley.

Until he was awake and his mental performance could be tested and evaluated, there was a chance that he had been reanimated only to live out a life of anguish and frustration, his potential tragically circumscribed by irreparable brain damage.

Ever since his stubbornness had almost turned out so tragically, the resuscitation team had deemed ATXul1024 himATXul0 a dangerous individual and had forbidden him to have anything to do with Elea.

In a typically Cervantine way, by telling a story, it paints a moving portrait of Cervantes as the outstanding Spanish writer of his time, clearly superior to all his contemporaries and yet tragically unrecompensed for his gifts to humanity and his service to his country.

And she was afraid her father, who must at first have minded very much and then had come to mind less, had perhaps by now learned to count on returning home every night to a dark and peaceful house instead of stepping into the full, accusing spotlight glare as Ginger sat, slightly atilt at the kitchen alcove table, presiding tragically over a baked-away casserole, sipping vermouth and twisting her rings.

This led to the construction of the Beltway, and although Kennedy, tragically, did not live to see it, those of us who were alive at the time will never forget where we were on August 17, 1964, when America held its breath as a new national hero, Parnell M.

Rosebush, a panel from an ancient fable about a bloodred vine that grew upon the graves of tragically denied lovers.

Tragically, the overconsumption by the industrialized world, where scientific materialism is most dominant, together with its massive proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, is endangering our very survival as a species, which scientific materialism presents as the central driving force of life itself.

Until he was awake and his mental performance could be tested and evaluated, there was a chance that he had been reanimated only to live out a life of anguish and frustration, his potential tragically circumscribed by irreparable brain damage.

Christmas carols hi Spanish, they played guitars and an accordion, they wept and cavorted joyously some more, and finally, tearfully, emotionally, tragically, they all kissed his shrunken cheeks and bid him a fond and loving adios, told their mama Betita to be strong, and scattered to the three winds.

Christmas carols in Spanish, they played guitars and an accordion, they wept and cavorted joyously some more, and finally, tearfully, emotionally, tragically, they all kissed his shrunken cheeks and bid him a fond and loving adios, told their mama Betita to be strong, and scattered to the three winds.

Just how deep this passion for automobility runs among the youth is tragically illustrated by the suicide of a seventeen-year-old Wisconsin boy, William Nebel, who was "grounded" by his father after his driver's license was suspended for speeding.

The trouble was that while in humans this sort of behaviour tended to manifest itself in practical jokes, petty jealousies, silly misunderstandings and instances of tragically unrequited love, with Minds it occasionally meant they forgot to tell everybody else about finding entire stellar civilisations, or took it upon themselves to try to alter the course of a developed culture everybody already did know about (with the almost unspeakable implication that one day they might do just that not with a culture but with the Culture… always assuming they hadn't done so already, of course).

Tragically, she was diagnosed with a stage T-2 breast cancer last year.

The hurricane tragically confirmed that government cannot be relied upon to enforce building codes, especially in areas of uncontrolled growth.