tragedy
21tragedy — trag|e|dy [ trædʒədi ] noun ** 1. ) count or uncount a very sad event that causes people to suffer or die: The trip ended in tragedy. prevent/avert a tragedy: The measures were designed to prevent any similar tragedies. a ) count usually singular …
22tragedy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. drama; disaster, calamity, catastrophe; crushing blow. See evil. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Unhappy fate] Syn. lot, bad fortune, misfortune, doom, bad end, no good end. Ant. happiness*, fortune, success.… …
23tragedy — noun 1 (C, U) a very sad event, that shocks people because it involves death: Tragedy struck the family when their two year old son died of leukemia. 2 (C) informal something that seems very sad and unnecessary because something will be wasted,… …
24tragedy — [ˈtrædʒədi] noun 1) [C/U] a very sad event that involves death or human suffering The trip ended in tragedy.[/ex] We need new safety laws to prevent tragedies like this from happening again.[/ex] 2) [C] a bad situation that makes people very… …
25tragedy — trag•e•dy [[t]ˈtrædʒ ɪ di[/t]] n. pl. dies 1) a lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or affair; calamity; disaster: a family tragedy[/ex] 2) lit. the tragic element of drama, of literature generally, or of life: the tragedy of poverty[/ex] 3) lit …
26tragedy — Drama Dra ma (dr[aum] m[.a] or dr[=a] m[.a]; 277), n. [L. drama, Gr. dra^ma, fr. dra^n to do, act; cf. Lith. daryti.] 1. A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a… …
27tragedy — See disaster. See disaster, holocaust, tragedy …
28tragedy — [14] Etymologically, a tragedy is probably a ‘goat song’. The word comes via Old French tragedie and Latin tragoedia from Greek tragōidíā, a compound formed from trágos ‘goat’ and ōidé ‘song’ (source of English ode, parody, rhapsody, etc). It is… …
29tragedy — tragedia ит. [траджэ/диа] tragédie фр. [тражэди/] tragedy англ. [трэ/джэди] Tragödie нем. [трагэди/] трагедия …
30tragedy — noun the flood was the worst tragedy in the city s history Syn: disaster, calamity, catastrophe, cataclysm, misfortune, mishap, blow, trial, tribulation, affliction, adversity …
