TRAG'ICAL, a. [L. tragicus.]
1. Pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy; as a tragic poem; tragic play or representation.2. Fatal to life; mournful; sorrowful; calamitous; as the tragic scenes of Hayti the tragic horrors of Scio and Missilonghi; the tragical fate of the Greeks.3. Mournful; expressive of tragedy,the loss of life, or of sorrow. I now must change those notes to tragic.