tragedy

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noun

1. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune (Freq. 8)
- the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity
- the earthquake was a disaster
• Syn:
calamity, catastrophe, disaster, cataclysm
• Derivationally related forms:
cataclysmic (for: cataclysm), cataclysmal (for: cataclysm), tragical, tragic, disastrous (for: disaster), calamitous (for: calamity)
• Hypernyms:
misfortune, bad luck
• Hyponyms:
act of God, force majeure, vis major, inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty,
apocalypse, famine, kiss of death, meltdown, plague, visitation,
tidal wave, tsunami
2. drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance;
excites terror or pity (Freq. 1)
• Ant:
comedy
• Derivationally related forms:
tragic
• Hypernyms:
drama
• Hyponyms:
tragicomedy

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  calamity, catastrophe, disaster, cataclysm