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Tragic vs Shocking - What's the difference?

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Tragic is a related term of shocking.


As adjectives the difference between tragic and shocking

is that tragic is causing great sadness or suffering while shocking is inspiring shock; startling.

As nouns the difference between tragic and shocking

is that tragic is (obsolete) a writer of tragedy while shocking is the application of an electric shock.

As a verb shocking is

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tragic

English

Alternative forms

* tragick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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) 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?}}
  • 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]

    • Derived terms

    * tragic flaw

    Related terms

    * tragicomic * tragical * tragically

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A writer of tragedy.
  • (obsolete) A tragedy; a tragic drama.
    • (Webster 1913)

    shocking

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Inspiring shock; startling
  • Unusually obscene or lewd
  • (colloquial) Extremely bad

    • Synonyms

    See

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The application of an electric shock.
  • * 2005 , Will Tuttle, The World Peace Diet
    • We terrorize millions of vulnerable and defenseless animals daily with painful shockings , beatings, brandings,

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