English Dictionary

tragic

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈtɹæd͡ʒɪk/

形容詞

タブロイド紙用語 くだけた表現 叙述用法

Causing great sadness or suffering. / Relating to tragedy in a literary work. / (in tabloid newspapers) Having been the victim of a tragedy.

日本語の意味

大きな悲しみや苦しみを引き起こす / 文学作品における悲劇に関連する / （タブロイド新聞で）悲劇の被害者であったことを示す

The sudden, tragic accident left the whole town in mourning.

その突然の痛ましい事故は町全体を深い悲しみに包んだ。

意味（1）

Causing great sadness or suffering.

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?

意味（2）

Relating to tragedy in a literary work.

意味（3）

(in tabloid newspapers) Having been the victim of 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

意味（4）

(informal, chiefly predicative) Cringeworthy; tryhard; unhip; embarrassing; hopeless; indicative of (or having) a chronic lack of self-awareness.

That dress is tragic.

more tragic （ comparative ）

most tragic （ superlative ）