单词 | tragically |
释义 | tragicallyadv. 1. In a way that involves or causes great suffering; disastrously, catastrophically; devastatingly, distressingly. Also in weakened use. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [adverb] > calamitously tragically1561 disastrously1596 fatally1663 calamitously1794 1561 G. North tr. Descr. Swedland sig. C.i Birgerius succeded Magnus and tragecally enioyed the crowne. 1589 E. Hayes in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 690 Our voyage..ended tragically. 1602 W. Warner Epitome Hist. Eng. in Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) 384 This King that tragically raigned, being first deposed..tragically ended. 1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. xlii As his provocations were great, he has reveng'd them Tragically. 1757 C. Bradbury Cabinet of Jewels 32 The Representation of these Things in a Play ended the Life of so great a Man so tragically. 1836 W. F. Cumming Jrnl. 18 Nov. in Notes Wanderer (1839) I. ii. 227 While about leaving Boulac this forenoon, I saw a fight between two Arab lads which ended somewhat tragically. 1885 Manch. Examiner 10 July 5/2 Their predictions have been only too tragically fulfilled. 1960 Life 18 July 31/1 Only a few days after winning independence from Belgium, the Republic of the Congo suddenly and tragically came unstuck. 1999 Village Voice (N.Y.) 8 June 35/1 I..twice hung up a ringing Ticketmaster line, tragically costing me World Series tickets. 2006 Hotdog Nov. 99/3 He was tragically killed when he veered off the road and plunged 130ft into the Pacific Ocean. 2. With tragic feeling or expression; sorrowfully; (formerly also) †with a vehement outcry (obsolete). Now frequently hyperbolic. Sometimes overlapping with sense 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adverb] ungladly?c1225 wanlyc1275 dolefullyc1290 ruefullya1300 elengelyc1305 heavisomelya1382 lumpishlyc1450 tristily?c1450 dowlyc1540 unjoyfully1553 tragically1567 dully1600 tragicly1604 heartlessly1606 unjovially1607 dejectedly1611 dejectly1611 disconsolately1614 dumpishly1621 uncheerfullya1628 dolorously1638 mopishly1651 despondingly1656 despondentlya1677 unhappily1688 dismally1709 gloomily1727 grumly1727 joylessly1766 mopingly1788 sombrously1796 glumly1805 malagrugrously1818 funerally1829 broodingly1834 unenjoyingly1844 downheartedly1847 unblissfully1849 droopingly1852 dreichly1853 sombrely1860 dispiritedly1864 glumpily1865 pleasurelessly1873 depressedly1880 chapfallenly1883 sighfully1900 bleakly1938 the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > [adverb] sorelyc888 yomerlya1000 yomerea1250 ruthlya1400 mourninglya1425 sorrowinglya1425 lamentably1470 in sackcloth and ashes1526 tragically1567 plaintively1593 lamentinglyc1610 bemoaningly1646 complainingly1816 deploringly1847 sighfully1900 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [adverb] > in other specific style naturally1557 licentiously1561 tragically1567 cosily1721 mock-heroically1846 naturalistically1864 declamatorily1898 1567 T. Harding Reioindre to M. Iewels Replie against Masse f. 179v What cause haue ye, why ye should so tragically crie out vpon vs therefore? 1577 T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians (new ed.) f. 25 Paul might..tragically have cried out against them: O ungracious world. 1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. H3 A discontented Scholler..tragicallie exclaiming vpon his partial-eid fortune. 1663 H. P. Cressy Roman-Catholick Doctr. xxiii. 288 He tragically exclaim'd, that he abhorred the Appellation of Vniversal Bishop. a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) VI. 493 Many complain and cry out very tragically of the Wretchedness of their Hearts. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xviii. 116 He tragically lamented the cruel murder of Constans. 1815 J. Taylor Display xii. 145 She flew down stairs, and throwing herself tragically into the chair,..ordered to be taken to Colonel Harrison's. 1863 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 179/2 ‘A good many of that sort of craft founder in these waters, as I know to my sorrow’; and, sighing tragically, Mr. Joe turned to help Debby from her perch. 1919 L. F. Perkins Cornelia vii. 110 The man, absorbed in his misery and gazing tragically upward, had not noticed her. 1981 M. E. Robertson After Freud i. 3 ‘Everybody else has shoes,’ Isabel says tragically, ‘and our feet get cold.’ 2005 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 10 Dec. (Books section) 1 ‘It's time to clear out some of your old toys,’ I said firmly to my child early last December. ‘No!’ she cried, tragically. 3. a. In the style of a tragic actor; in a dignified, elevated, or pompous manner; grandly, grandiloquently, rhetorically. Now rare. Sometimes overlapping with sense 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adverb] > loftily or grandiloquently loftily1548 loftly1598 tragically1602 magnificently1630 sublimely1631 grandiloquently1821 soundingly1843 magniloquently1849 largely1857 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster i. i. sig. A3v Hast thou buskins on, Luscus, that thou swear'st so tragically and high? View more context for this quotation 1678 R. Cudworth tr. Proclus in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 548 Having praised the Three Gods, [he] Tragically or Affectedly called them, the Grandfather, the Son, and the Nephew. 1794 G. Wakefield Exam. Paine's Age of Reason 48 Your notion of redemption, upon which you so largely expatiate and so tragically declaim.., is the notion derived probably from your quaker father. 1903 L. C. Alexander Wife Sealers xix. 187 She turned tragically, looked at them both with a withering glance, and in a fine rich contralto summarised her opinion of them. b. In the style of tragic drama or literature; in a manner befitting a tragedy. ΚΠ 1611 R. Brathwait Sonnets Ep. Ded. in Golden Fleece sig. E6v Pyndarus fountaines lie open as well to Ouid, to write lasciuiously, as to Sophocles to write tragically. 1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. iv. xviii. 129 Where shall I be able to finde tearmes, and Inke black enough, to expresse, and write tragically enough, the cruel, and dismal effects, of this sanguinary, and horrible War? 1787 Retrospect. Portraits in Short Rev. 30 The ‘strange scene’ he has so tragically written. 1823 London Lit. Gaz. 30 Aug. 548/1 The narrative carries the reader through many scenes of an affecting description, and the conclusion is tragically fine. 1950 C. Leech Shakespeare's Trag. i. 19 In seventeenth-century France, Racine could write tragically. 1986 E. Wright Poetry Protest under Franco iii. 73 Hidalgo's original intention was to write tragically and apocalyptically about those who died in the Civil War. 2003 D. Evans in P. Chabot & G. Hottois Les Philosophes et la Technique 40 To become a tragedian, you must write tragically. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1561 |
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