Blighting vs Tragic - What's the difference?
blighting | tragic | Related terms |
The act by which something is blighted.
* (Mark Twain)
Causing great sadness or suffering.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
, author=(Jan Sapp)
, title=Race Finished
, volume=100, issue=2, page=164
, magazine=(American Scientist)
Relating to tragedy in a literary work.
(in tabloid newspapers) Involved in a tragedy.
* 2008', ''Search for '''tragic Madeleine McCann over'' (in ''The Daily Telegraph of Australia, 14 February 2008) [http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/search-for-maddie-over/story-e6freuy9-1111115550129]
* 2012', Gary Meneely, ''Keano’s tribute to '''tragic James'' (in ''The Irish Sun , 25 June 2012) [http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/irishsun/irishsunnews/4392499/Keanos-tribute-to-tragic-James.html]
Blighting is a related term of tragic.
As nouns the difference between blighting and tragic
is that blighting is the act by which something is blighted while tragic is (obsolete) a writer of tragedy.As a verb blighting
is .As an adjective tragic is
causing great sadness or suffering.blighting
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- They showed signs of the blightings and blastings of time, in their outward aspect, but they were young within; young and cheerful, and ready to talk
tragic
English
Alternative forms
* tragick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}