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adjective very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction
adjective of or relating to or characteristic of tragedy
originFrom Ancient Greek τραγικός (tragikós, “of or relating to tragedy”), from τράγος (trágos, “male goat”), a reference to the goat-satyrs of the theatrical plays of the Dorians.
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