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tragical

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trag·i·cal  (trj-kl)
adj.
Tragic: "You take too tragical a view of matters" (John Fowles). "He assumes a sudden look of tragical sobriety" (Scott Turow).

tragi·cal·ly adv.
tragi·cal·ness n.
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Adj.1.tragicaltragical - very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction; "a tragic face"; "a tragic plight"; "a tragic accident"
sad - experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; "feeling sad because his dog had died"; "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad"- Christina Rossetti


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We indulged a melancholy pleasure in reflecting what that great man had achieved for the deliverance of Abyssinia, from the yoke and tyranny of the Moors; the voyages he had undertaken; the battles he had fought; the victories he had won; and the cruel and tragical death he had suffered.
This sudden deluge, therefore, of undoubtedly tragical happenings became almost an embarrassment to them.
But who could know anything of the tragical history that was so soon to follow that winter of 1859-60?
 
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