adj.
  - extremely distressing or sad. 
▸suffering extreme distress or sadness.
 - relating to tragedy in a literary work.
 
 
  Derivative
  
    - tragical adj.
  - tragically adv.
 
   
  Etymology
  C16: from Fr. tragique, via L. from Gk tragikos, from tragos ‘goat’, but assoc. with tragōidia (see tragedy).