<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>characteristic or suggestive of tragedy: tragic solemnity.</li><li>Antonyms: comic.</li><li>extremely mournful, melancholy, or pathetic: a tragic plight.</li><li>Synonyms: pitiful.</li><li>Antonyms: comic.</li><li>dreadful, calamitous, disastrous, or fatal: a tragic event.</li><li>Antonyms: comic.</li><li>of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of tragedy: the tragic drama.</li><li>acting in or writing tragedy: a tragic actor; a tragic poet.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the tragic, the element or quality of tragedy in literature, art, drama, etc.: lives that had never known anything but the tragic.</li></ul>