<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or affair; calamity; disaster: stunned by the tragedy of so many deaths.</li><li>a dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically involving a great person destined to experience downfall or utter destruction, as through a character flaw or conflict with some overpowering force, as fate or an unyielding society.</li><li>the branch of the drama that is concerned with this form of composition.</li><li>the art and theory of writing and producing tragedies.</li><li>any literary composition, as a novel, dealing with a somber theme carried to a tragic or disastrous conclusion.</li><li>the tragic or mournful or calamitous element of drama, of literature generally, or of life.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>