Dramatic vs Tragedy - What's the difference?
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Of or relating to the drama.
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Striking in appearance or effect.
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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.
The genre of such works, and the art of producing them.
A disastrous event, especially one involving great loss of life or injury.
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As an adjective dramatic
is dramatic.As a noun tragedy is
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.dramatic
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Alternative forms
* dramatickAdjective
(en adjective)Best and brightest, passage=Poland has made some dramatic gains in education in the past decade. Before 2000 half of the country’s rural adults had finished only primary school. Yet international rankings now put the country’s students well ahead of America’s in science and maths (the strongest predictor of future earnings), even as the country spends far less per pupil. }}
Derived terms
* nondramatictragedy
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(wikipedia tragedy)Alternative forms
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(tragedies)citation, passage=“The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached ; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas. […]”}}