Tragedic vs Tragical - What's the difference?
tragedic | tragical |
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)
(archaic) tragic
* 1918 , , Address to the Joint Session of Congress on the Fourteen Points
As adjectives the difference between tragedic and tragical
is that tragedic is relating to tragedy, the genre while tragical is (archaic) tragic.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
* comedictragical
English
Adjective
- No statesman who has the least conception of responsibility ought for a moment to permit himself to continue this tragical and appalling outpouring of blood and treasure...