Meaning & use
Tragical
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Relating to or characteristic of tragedy; deeply sorrowful or disastrous.
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Shakespeare's play is billed as "The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragical History of Romeo and Juliet."
The chronicle records the tragical fall of the kingdom.
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Once interchangeable with "tragic," this older form now sounds archaic or deliberately theatrical in modern English.
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