Phrase Hound found 7 phrases and 12 compound words that contain tragic. The most common are listed below. Open tragic in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 7
- tragic flawA personality trait or other characteristic of a real or fictional individual which is immoral, destructive, or otherwise faulty and which leads to the ruin or profound suffering of that individual.
- tragic heroA hero who suffers from a tragic flaw that eventually causes his downfall.
- tragic carpetThe green cloth that was spread on the stage in seventeenth century plays for the actors to "die" on so they would not dirty their clothes.
- tragic heroesplural of tragic hero: A hero who suffers from a tragic flaw that eventually causes his downfall.
- tragic heroineA heroine who suffers from a tragic flaw that eventually causes her downfall; a female tragic hero.
- tragic flawsplural of tragic flaw: A personality trait or other characteristic of a real or fictional individual which is immoral, destructive, or otherwise faulty and which leads to the ruin or profound suffering of that individual.
- tragic heroinesplural of tragic heroine: A heroine who suffers from a tragic flaw that eventually causes her downfall; a female tragic hero.
Compound words 12
- tragicomicOf, pertaining to, or resembling tragicomedy; having both tragic and comic aspects.
- semitragicHaving certain elements of tragedy.
- antitragicChallenging the conventions of tragedy.
- nontragicNot tragic.
- supertragicVery tragic.
- tragicasterA petty or inferior tragedian.
- tragicofarcicalHaving elements of both tragedy and farce.
- untragicNot tragic.
- tragicizeTo speak or write in the manner of a tragedy; to adopt a grandiloquent style.
- tragicallyIn a tragic manner.