TRAGEDY meaning: Deep, distressing event causing sorrow

We found 37 dictionaries that define the word Tragedy:

General (30 matching dictionaries)

tragedy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tragedy: Merriam-Webster
tragedy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
tragedy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
tragedy: Collins English Dictionary
Tragedy, tragedy: Wordnik
tragedy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
tragedy: Wiktionary
tragedy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
tragedy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
tragedy: Infoplease Dictionary
tragedy: Dictionary.com
tragedy: Online Etymology Dictionary
tragedy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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Tragedy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
tragedy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
tragedy: Rhymezone
tragedy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
tragedy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Tragedy: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
tragedy: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
Tragedy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
tragedy: FreeDictionary.org
tragedy: Mnemonic Dictionary
tragedy: TheFreeDictionary.com
tragedy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
tragedy: Vocabulary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)

tragedy: Global Glossary
ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
TRAGEDY: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

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tragedy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

tragedy: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

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tragedy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tragedy)

▸ noun:  A drama or similar work, in which the main character is brought to ruin or otherwise suffers the extreme consequences of some tragic flaw or weakness of character.
▸ noun:  The genre of such works, and the art of producing them.
▸ noun:  A disastrous event, especially one involving great loss of life or injury.

Opposite:

comedy, joy, happiness, success, celebration

Types:

Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, Hamlet, more...

Phrases:

Greek tragedy, spanish tragedy, domestic tragedy, Revenge tragedy, haymarket tragedy, more...

Adjectives:

greek, great, personal, real, human, terrible, classical, shakespearean, domestic, french, national

Colors:

black, gray, dark red, maroon, navy blue, more...

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