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形容詞

tragedic (comparative more tragedic, superlative most tragedic)

1. Relating to tragedy, the genre.
   • 1971, Konstantin Mochulsky, Dostoevsky: His Life and Work (Princeton University Press) p. vii

     In 1911 the poet wrote a brilliant book in which he discusses three aspects of Dostoevsky's work: "Tragedic" (which we noted in our definition of "novel-tragedy"), "Mythological," and "Theological."

   • 1998, Robert Henke, "Pastoral as Tragicomedic in Italian and Shakespearean Drama" in Michele Marrapodi, A. J. Hoenselaars (eds.) The Italian World of English Renaissance Drama (University of Delaware Press p. 292

     The capacity of pastoral to assimilate a tragedic apparatus is tested in Il pastor fido.

   • 2009, J. David Velleman, How We Get Along, (Cambridge University Press) p. 198

     The emotions of fear and pity, in Aristotle's account of tragedic emotion, would therefore correspond to the beginning and ending in his account of tragedic plot.

   • 2012, Seth L. Schein, "Sophocles and Homer" in Kirk Ormand (eds.) A Companion to Sophocles (John Wiley & Sons) p. 436

     Nevertheless, the play also establishes him as an ethically compromised, fifth-century tragedic version of Achilles, much as its Odysseus is a late fifth-century tragedic version of his epic namesake.

使用する際の注意点

The traditional term tragic has accumulated strongly negative overtones.

反意語

• comedic