Tragedic vs Tragic - What's the difference?
tragedic | tragic |
Relating to tragedy, the genre.
* 1971 , Konstantin Mochulsky, Dostoevsky: His Life and Work (Princeton University Press)
* 1998 , Robert Henke, "Pastoral as Tragicomedic in Italian and Shakespearean Drama" in Michele Marrapodi, A. J. Hoenselaars (eds.) The Italian World of English Renaissance Drama (University of Delaware Press
* 2009 , , How We Get Along , (Cambridge University Press)
* 2012 , Seth L. Schein, "Sophocles and Homer" in Kirk Ormand (eds.) A Companion to Sophocles (John Wiley & Sons)
Causing great sadness or suffering.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
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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]
As adjectives the difference between tragedic and tragic
is that tragedic is relating to tragedy, the genre while tragic is causing great sadness or suffering.As a noun tragic is
a writer of tragedy.tragedic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)p. vii
- In 1911 the poet wrote a brilliant book in which he discusses three aspects of Dostoevsky's work: "Tragedic " (which we noted in our definition of "novel-tragedy"), "Mythological," and "Theological."
p. 292
- The capacity of pastoral to assimilate a tragedic apparatus is tested in Il pastor fido .
p. 198
- The emotions of fear and pity, in Aristotle's account of tragedic' emotion, would therefore correspond to the beginning and ending in his account of ' tragedic plot.
p. 436
- Nevertheless, the play also establishes him as an ethically compromised, fifth-century tragedic' version of Achilles, much as its Odysseus is a late fifth-century ' tragedic version of his epic namesake.
Usage notes
The traditional term (tragic) has accumulated strongly negative overtones.Antonyms
* comedictragic
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?}}