Trāg'ic or Trāg'ic-al, a.

a. [Fr. tragique, It. & Sp. tragico, Lat. tragicus, Gr. τραγικός.]

1. Pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy; as, a tragic poem; a tragic play or representation.
2. Fatal to life; mournful; sorrowful; calamitous; as, the tragic scenes of the French revolution.
3. Mournful; expressive of tragedy, the loss of life, or of sorrow.

Why look you still so stern and tragical? Shak. I now must change those notes to tragic. Milton.