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Tragedic vs Tragedical - What's the difference?

tragedic | tragedical |

As adjectives the difference between tragedic and tragedical

is that tragedic is relating to tragedy, the genre while tragedical is tragedic; relating to works of tragedy.

tragedic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Relating to tragedy, the genre.
  • * 1971 , Konstantin Mochulsky, Dostoevsky: His Life and Work (Princeton University Press) 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."
  • * 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 p. 292
  • The capacity of pastoral to assimilate a tragedic apparatus is tested in Il pastor fido .
  • * 2009 , , How We Get Along , (Cambridge University Press) 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.
  • * 2012 , Seth L. Schein, "Sophocles and Homer" in Kirk Ormand (eds.) A Companion to Sophocles (John Wiley & Sons) 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

    * comedic

    tragedical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • tragedic; relating to works of tragedy