tragedy
an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,869 of 86,757 words measured. It occurs 46,137 times across 426,181 published chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- an event resulting in great loss and misfortune also: calamity, catastrophe, disaster, cataclysm the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamitythe earthquake was a disaster
- drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity
tragedy in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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In a moment tragedy had come into this paradise.
The City in the Clouds · Guy Thorne · Chapter 1
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What had happened was a small tragedy in its way.
Queed: A Novel · Henry Sydnor Harrison · Chapter 1
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It is one more chapter of tragedy in the history of our poor France.
Back to Life · Philip Gibbs · Chapter 1
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There are the wit, the humor, the pathos, the tragedy of situation, of relation.
Shakespeare: A Lecture · Robert Green Ingersoll · Chapter 1
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Now I call that real tragedy; just as good as any you ever see on the stage, or read about in books.
The Inner Sisterhood · Douglass Sherley · Chapter 1