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tragick

tragick is the obsolete form of tragic.

Meaning of tragic

Adjective

tragic (comparative more tragic, superlative most tragic)

  1. Causing great sadness or suffering.
    • Her father's early death was tragic.
  2. Relating to tragedy in a literary work.
  3. Having been the victim of a tragedy.
  4. (informal, predicative) Cringeworthy; tryhard; unhip; embarrassing; hopeless; indicative of (or having) a chronic lack of self-awareness.
    • That dress is tragic.

See all 7 meanings of tragic

Forms of tragick

comparativemore tragick
superlativemost tragick

Questions about tragick

What is tragick the obsolete form of?
Tragick is the obsolete form of tragic.

Words near tragick in the dictionary

  1. tragicasters
  2. tragicize
  3. tragicized
  4. tragicizes
  5. tragicizing
  6. tragick
  7. tragicly
  8. tragicness
  9. tragicofarcical
  10. tragicomedian
  11. tragicomedians

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tragick (page history and authors); tragic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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