What is another word for tragical?

Pronunciation: [tɹˈad͡ʒɪkə͡l] (IPA)

Tragical is an adjective that describes something causing great sadness or despair. However, there are many other words that can be used in place of this solemn description. For instance, the words distressing, mournful, pitiful, and grievous are all excellent synonyms for tragical. Similarly, words like woeful, somber, melancholy, and doleful can aptly convey the same meaning. Furthermore, words like heart-wrenching, harrowing, and heart-rending can offer a more vivid and intense way of telling a story. Whatever the situation, there are a plethora of synonyms available that can describe experiences, situations, or emotions in a way that is both powerful and nuanced.

What are the hypernyms for Tragical?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for tragical?

Tragical is most commonly used to describe an event or situation that is marked by tragedy or sorrow. Its antonyms, on the other hand, describe situations that are positive, happy, and joyful. Some of the popular antonyms for the word tragical are fortunate, fortunate, blessed, happy, joyful, satisfying, and favorable. These antonyms are often used to express situations in which individuals have been successful or have experienced a positive outcome. By using these antonyms, individuals can express feelings of optimism or hope in contrast to the negative connotations associated with tragical events.

What are the antonyms for Tragical?

  • adj.

    noun

Usage examples for Tragical

Later, he might come to realize many things, all the things that Prudence realized, that the Crevequers realized-how the fusion of two 'sorts' was at the best a rash experiment, at the worst a most tragical catastrophe; how the matter had been, no doubt, wisely decided.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
It seems to have profited, not merely from political measures of repression, but even from the internal dissensions and divisions of its own adherents, and some persons tell us that it was first stimulated into decided vigour by the fatal event which might have been expected to crush it-the sudden and tragical death of its chief.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
If those noble souls are often actuated by pride and excessive self-reliance, do they not atone for it by their tragical end?
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse

Famous quotes with Tragical

  • It was at present a place perfectly accordant with man's nature—neither ghastly, hateful, nor ugly; neither commonplace, unmeaning, nor tame; but, like man, slighted and enduring; and withal singularly colossal and mysterious in its swarthy monotony. As with some persons who have long lived apart, solitude seemed to look out of its countenance. It had a lonely face, suggesting tragical possibilities.
    Thomas Hardy
  • Burns's Brother Gilbert, a man of much sense and worth, has told me that Robert, in his young days, in spite of their hardship, was usually the gayest of speech; a fellow of infinite frolic, laughter, sense and heart; far pleasanter to hear there, stript cutting peats in the bog, or such like, than he ever afterwards knew him. I can well believe it. This basis of mirth, a primal element of sunshine and joyfulness, coupled with his other deep and earnest qualities, is one of the most attractive characteristics of Burns. A large fund of Hope dwells in him; spite of his tragical history, he is not a mourning man. He shakes his sorrows gallantly aside; bounds forth victorious over them.
    Thomas Carlyle
  • In times of exceptional stress, nature will often give people's behavior so tragical a complexion that neither a picture nor a verbal description is competent to represent its titanic energy.
    Stefan Zweig
  • Nothing moves young people so much as to witness a sublime and virile gloom. Michelangelo's thinker staring down into the abyss of his own thoughts, Beethoven's poignantly drawn lips; these tragical masks of universal suffering touch the crude emotions of youth far more than Mozart's silver melodies or the crystalline light that radiates from Leonardo's figures. Being itself beauty, youth has no need of transfiguration. In the superabundance of its vital forces, it is allured by the tragical, and in its inexperience, is prone to accept the embraces of melancholy. That, too, is why youth is always ready for danger, and ever willing to extend a brotherly hand towards mental pain.
    Stefan Zweig

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